Richard Kinder Quotes

Too many entrepreneurs think their valuation is the real economic price of their company. It's not. It's not a real economic price unless you are selling 100%.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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.

There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of assets. Infinity is performing at record levels and continues to generate a tremendous amount of free cash flow that will now fully benefit Viacom.

Adani Enterprises is well on track to realize its aim of emerging as India's largest private sector energy and logistics conglomerate.

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

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.

I've always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple.

If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.

If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.

General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.

Yahoo would benefit from going private or becoming part of a larger corporation.

The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking.

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 mean, you don't get a chance to buy a company like Gateway, you know, at or near book value very often.

With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.

I wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber.

I have never applied for a share in Tehelka.

In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?

Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.

The value of Bitcoin is astronomical, but the price goes all over the place as a million buyers and sellers try to figure out what that value is and how likely it is to manifest.

Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.

The vast majority of companies don't go public and mint dozens of millionaires. And most companies don't go around doling out stock options; private companies tend to be very tight about ownership.

It is easy to cross 100 Crores these days but it takes a lot of efforts to creep towards the next number that is 200.