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I enjoy not being a public company. -- Marc Andreessen
I hated being a public company CEO. -- John Katzman
It's a special thing to be a public company. -- David Duffield
I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum. -- Ivan Glasenberg
You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore. -- Irving Azoff
Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors. -- Alex Berenson
I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money. -- Martin Shkreli
Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase. -- Fred Wilson
I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company. -- Michael Ovitz
Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic. -- Michael Eisner
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want. -- Richard Branson
Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation. -- Irving Azoff
Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability. -- Mark Pincus
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. -- Jon Oringer
The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years. -- Dan Rosensweig
If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally. -- Barry Diller
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. -- Marc Rich
I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that. -- Jon Oringer
Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never. -- Sanjay Kumar
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. -- Sam Altman
The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward. -- John Katzman
I'm on the Business Roundtable, the CEOs of the largest 100-odd companies in the country. Most of these people wanted very much to be the CEO of a large public company but realize that it's not exactly what they had anticipated, for lots of reasons. One is competition has gotten a lot worse, and more global. -- Henry Silverman
Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day. -- Max Azria
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom. -- William Hazlitt
CEOs must embrace the role of serving as the public face of the company to their customer community and the marketplace at large. -- Simon Mainwaring
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public. -- Grandmaster Flash
Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper diet has constituted the agenda of the Dole Nutrition Institute. -- David H. Murdock
As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains. -- John Moody
When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare. -- John Kasich
I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do. -- Hillary Clinton
Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen. -- Bennie Thompson

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