Business Quote by Marc Rich

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

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

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

— Vivek Ramaswamy

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

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

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

— David Duffield

There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number…

— James Surowiecki

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

— Michael Moritz

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

The reason for looking at a public listing instead of private capital is that I have always enjoyed running a public limited company.

— Ashok Soota

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

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

— Jill Lepore