Bernard Ebbers Quotes

• I didn’t have anything to apologize for.

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• I don’t know technology and engineering. I don’t know accounting.

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• I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?

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• No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

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• I just want you to know you aren’t going to church with a crook.

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• I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I’ve been in the process of selling others.

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• The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I’m particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

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• I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

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• We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

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• Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international – three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

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• We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.

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• I expected results.

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• Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

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• I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

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• I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

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• The coach’s job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

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• We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

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• I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

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• I know what I don’t know. To this day, I don’t know technology, and I don’t know finance or accounting.

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• I wasn’t ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

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Bernard Ebbers (22)

Birth:	27th August, 1941
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Businessman

About

Bernie Ebbers is a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company. In 2005, he was convicted of fraud and conspiracy as a result of WorldCom's false financial reporting, and subsequent loss of US$100-billion to investors. The WorldCom scandal was, until the Madoff schemes came to light in 2008, the largest accounting scandal in United States history.

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