Vivek Ramaswamy Quotes

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

I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.

I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.

There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.

There will come a time and place it will be appropriate for us to consider going public.

You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.

Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.

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

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

There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.

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

One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

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 from the perspective of the sales organization.

We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

I think going public is a really smart thing to do.

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 companies tend to be very tight about ownership.

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.

It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, 'Is your company for sale?' and if they said 'No, we have no interest in selling,' that was sort of the end of the conversation.

I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.

Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory.