Bigs Quote by Eric Lefkofsky

I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

— Robert Kiyosaki

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston…

— Amar Bose

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

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

— Nicolas Berggruen

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

The biggest pieces of my business are not public. Maybe I'll tell all the details when I'm 50 or 60.

— Scooter Braun

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

— Michael Ovitz

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

— Martin Shkreli

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

— David Duffield

I think unfortunately in this gold rush mentality that we've been in for the last years there has been not enough focus on business…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Everything I have is a private company. And even though a public company's a great thing, it's great for financing and all of the…

— Henry Blodget

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

— N. R. Narayana Murthy