Becomes Quote by Ben Horowitz

You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you…

— Gary Kovacs

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…

— Jeff Weiner

With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing…

— David Duffield

Going public is one step in the life cycle of a company; it's not the last step.

— David Cohen

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

— Mark Zuckerberg

There was a time when a company could not sell its shares to the public unless its revenues were growing and it was turning…

— Daniel Lyons

My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as…

— Seth Klarman

For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable.

— Vivek Ramaswamy

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make…

— Guy Spier

It's dangerous to short stocks.

— Charlie Munger

I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and…

— Marc Rich

Too often, the public can fall into the trap of investing when stock prices are rising, not dropping.

— Kelly Evans