The Returns Going Forward Won't Match the Returns to the Past?

Jeff Pescan from New York City asked a question about Berkshire Hathaway's annual report. He wanted to know what the reasoning is for holding on to companies that you don't think will do well going forward and not redeploying money elsewhere. Warren Buffett: There's no way we could match percentage numbers of the past, but size does not relate to our unwillingness to sell businesses. "We would gobble up the whole GDP which is something we may think about occasionally"