Ipo Sayings

#1. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.

Ryan Holmes

#2. Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

Steven Levitan

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

Vivek Wadhwa

#4. You cannot earn $10 million. Nobody earns millions. You can rob, you can steal, or you can make $10 million in an IPO, but never earn so much. So just forget all this saving and consulting bullshit.

Ravindra Shukla

#5. If you can get an IPO, don't buy it. Only buy IPOs you can't get.

Vahan Janjigian

#6. We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.

Charles Schwab

#7. It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

Ivan Glasenberg

#8. A rupee invested in Page Industries' IPO in March 2007 is worth Rs 34 presently (in April 2016), implying a compounded annual return of 47 per cent. That same rupee would be worth just Rs 2 if invested in the Sensex, implying a CAGR of 8 per cent. Thus

Saurabh Mukherjea

#9. An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.

Warren Buffett

#10. Evan Spiegel, the 24-year-old founder of Snapchat, a photo-messaging app that was valued at $15 billion after a round of fundraising in March, confirmed that his firm is preparing for an IPO, though he didn't say when.

Anonymous

#11. In October 2014, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and raised $25 billion, marking it as the largest IPO in history. Alibaba is also one of the largest e-commerce platforms in the world.

Jason Navallo

#12. There are a lot of music startups that don't have anything to do with anyone's love for music. It has to do with them having a glorious IPO and then retiring to the Bahamas somewhere. It's important to keep that in mind.

DJ Shadow

#13. We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

Joel Salatin

#14. Ben: "If you need me, I will come home." Felicia: "No. Get the IPO done. There is no tomorrow for you and the company. I'll be fine.

Ben Horowitz

#15. You always presume there's time ahead, until one day you realize there isn't.

Kate Morton

#16. -the future is but the present a little farther on.

Jules Verne

#17. Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Plautus

#18. The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

Vironika Tugaleva

#19. My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#20. It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.

Teresa Of Avila

#21. We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.

Heather Brooke

#22. I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination.

Yann Martel

#23. The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.

Venus Williams

#24. When your hobby becomes your work, life automatically transforms into a never ending holiday

Anamika Mishra

#25. Very young children often accept the paranormal as "normal" until adults squeeze it out them.

Doug Dillon

#26. One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

Joshua Foer

#27. You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem ... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy ... and I'm willing.

Jewel

#28. On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.

Aaron Lazar