Billion Quote by David Sze

I think all of these companies staying private for as long as they are is actually pretty bad.

— Baiju Bhatt

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

— Buzz Aldrin

The cost of being a publicly traded stock has gone way, way up. It doesn't make sense for a little company to be public…

— Charlie Munger

The vast majority of companies don't go public and mint dozens of millionaires. And most companies don't go around doling out stock options; private…

— Andrew Yang

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing…

— James Daly

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

— Brunello Cucinelli

Venture capital has peaked in terms of its appetite, in terms of how much money it wants to put in. So now private equity…

— Kevin Kinsella

Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.

— Steve Martin

So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources…

— Yvon Chouinard

The world of private equity is only likely to get a lot bigger.

— Lina Khan

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

The private equity world is a relatively small one. There are currently probably a few thousand professional jobs worldwide. In private equity, that's probably…

— David Bonderman