Accepting Quote by Jack Smith

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

— Mark Zuckerberg

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

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

— Richard Branson

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

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 that's the beauty of being a private company: you get to choose when you disclose something. You can play it in a…

— Taavet Hinrikus

If you can't honor your contract, that's the type of company I don't really want to be associated with.

— Quinton Jackson

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

— Vivek Ramaswamy

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.

— William Henry Vanderbilt

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

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

People go hard with the scams. Make sure you know who you're working with and what the contract says.

— Victoria Monet