Business Quote by Chamath Palihapitiya

When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the…

— Donna Karan

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

Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.

— Patrick Collison

Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

— Mark Pincus

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

I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— David Cohen

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

When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going…

— Trey Gowdy

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

— Danny Bonaduce

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

— Martin Shkreli