Marc Rich Quotes

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

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

In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.

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 invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.

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

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

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.

[Corporate] takeovers are for the public good, but that's not why I do it. I do it to make money.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

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.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.

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.

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

On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation, to build a high profile and to hire staff that made Salon what it is today.

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

The important source of finance is now commercial papers, bonds, and so on.

I went public in 2002 in America, and do you know what Wall Street valued my concession in Macau at? Zero.

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

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.

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

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.