Boston Quote by Amar Bose

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

— Eric Lefkofsky

Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

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…

— Yuri Milner

I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.

— Kenneth Chenault

The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

We're going to go public eventually, because that's the contract that we have with our investors and our employees.

— Mark Zuckerberg

We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away.

— Parker Harris

When I attended Emerson College in Boston, it was confined to the Back Bay, but now it has taken over a lot of Boston,…

— Joanna Going

This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.

— Nicolas Berggruen

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

— Danny Bonaduce

It's a special thing to be a public company.

— David Duffield

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

— David Sze