I enjoy not being a public company.
It's a special thing to be a public company.
You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
I hated being a public company CEO.
Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.
I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives.
Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for...
I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.
One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a ...
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
