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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.

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

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.

There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.

There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons - the privacy level and everything that comes with it - but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

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

I'm private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself.