There's something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don't deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It's more fun.

I can open any door I want as chairman of a $6 billion company,

In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.

The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.