It's a special thing to be a public company.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.
I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.
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.
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.
I enjoy not being a public company.
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.
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.
Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.