Naval Ravikant Quotes

If we're going to talk about our businesses, we're going to have to talk about them within the constraints of the disclosure rules, without giving guidance, because we're not going to give guidance, because we don't believe that it is a sensible game to play.

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.

The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.

Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

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

If you move up the timetable of when we disclose the transcript of our Open Market Committee, … you will affect what is said and the way that it is said.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

I'm not going to speak about any of our investors or board members at all because we don't.

Where protection of certain sensitive information is well-founded, I remain committed to upholding the laws and longstanding policies governing classification and public release.

Businesses always are reluctant to make governmental filings about the purpose and terms of their relationships. That's particularly so when sensitive strategic and legal matters are involved - and when misfiling could result in criminal sanctions.

I think entrepreneurs should demand transparency for startup accelerators.

National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is in proper to discuss such details in a public forum.

We are not obligated to share.

Patriarch Kirill. I would prefer - because if I say one thing, I have to say another and another and another. I would prefer that what we spoke about, us, alone, will remain only what we said in public.

Sometimes there are times you actually don't want to be in the information loop on some rumors; because once you're in the loop, then if something leaks, you're one of the people in the loop.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

I wish I could tell people what I'm directing next, but I can't.

You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.

We all have secrets, some secrets bigger than others, is a normal human thing.

At the end, I said [chemical weapons] is something not to be discussed with anyone.

It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret.

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.