"You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades."

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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.

— James Surowiecki