Frank Quattrone Quotes

There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.

I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.

I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.

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.

In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

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

I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.

The usual reason companies are funded or valued on the stock market for not having a current profit is because the investors believe there will be a future profit.

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it.

If you want to make short-term profits from the stock price, then I am a very bad president. But I don't think I'm so bad for maximizing the long-term value of Nintendo.

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

An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

You must value the business in order to value the stock.

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.

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

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

If I ever took a business public, I wouldn't want to take the shares off the table. I don't want people thinking I'm doing it just to make money and then going to run for the hills. I think that's a very important distinction.

We absolutely take no decisions based on the share price, not for LVMH.

The question for Dropbox is whether, when they run out of private sources for funding, they will be able to maintain that valuation when they go to public sources for funding and their valuation is set on the public markets.