Ben Horowitz Quotes

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

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.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.

No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.

The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility.

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

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

I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious.

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.

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

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

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

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.

Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised of the news before trading resumes in their stocks.

I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

Trading is very competitive and you have to be able to handle getting your butt kicked.

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

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 is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives.

I don't think I'd enjoy running a public company. We haven't needed to go to the market to fund expansion.