Joel Salatin Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return.

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.

A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

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

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.