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I don't believe in public companies... I would prefer to risk my own money, make any necessary changes fast and grow as quickly as possible.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.

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

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

I enjoy not being a public company.

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

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.