Martin Shkreli Quotes

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.

For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.

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

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.

As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

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

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

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

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

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

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

I don't care about awards. I want to make money. I want to own a business.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

I took IMAX public back in the early '90s.

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

The only thing I did well was learn how to make money.

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups.

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.