Ashok Soota Quotes

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

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

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

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.

It's a special thing to be a public company.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Going public is one step in the life cycle of a company; it's not the last step.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

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.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.

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.

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

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.

Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.

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.