David Talbot Quotes

When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

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

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

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.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

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

I think Salesforce, going public very early on before they were profitable, it made a lot of sense for them because it got customers comfortable that these guys were going to have capital and be transparent about their business.

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.

There will come a time and place it will be appropriate for us to consider going public.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.

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.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory.

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

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.

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

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 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.

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

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

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

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

Social Security has proved far more solvent and sound than anything Wall Street has produced.