Never Quote by Joel Salatin

It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on…

— Ivan Glasenberg

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's…

— Warren Buffett

“closed at $1.19 per share. Weighing the evidence objectively, the intelligent investor should conclude that IPO does not stand only for “initial public offering.”…

— Benjamin Graham

I've had two IPOs: with Etsy in 2015 and Cloudera in 2016. There have also been a ton of trade sales in my portfolio.

— Caterina Fake

If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide…

— Michael Hudson

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

“There is no question that the losing IPOs far outnumber the winners. Of the 8,606 firms examined, the returns on 6,796 of these firms,…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

As leaders, we've all seen the painful effects of team members not keeping pace with company growth - it's called up-leveling, and it's all…

— Jennifer Hyman

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

— William Henry Vanderbilt

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with…

— Sam Altman

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

— Mark Zuckerberg