Securities Exchange Quotes

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.

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 college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.

For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

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

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

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

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

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

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction price. If you were building a securities exchange today, an auction would be a core feature.

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

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