Bernard Ebbers
Bernard Ebbers
Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbersis a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth27 August 1941
CountryCanada
ability growth highest hosting markets months provide services web
With this merger, WorldCom accelerates by 12-to-18 months our ability to provide world-class managed Web and application hosting services -- one of the highest growth markets in the industry,
best core focus including past provide services shed virtually year
We have intensified our focus on what we do best -- provide core communications services, ... Including today's announcement with EDS, over the past year we have shed virtually all of our non-communications services businesses.
almost approval four full good operations planning process quarters team
The almost four full quarters of approval process were put to good use in planning the integration of our operations by a team experienced in integrating merged companies.
church
I want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
companies exploring operations portions separate switched tracking voice
We are exploring opportunities to separate portions of our switched voice operations into separate companies or tracking stocks,
years work-out would-be
Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.
technology finance accounting
I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.
marketing coaching good-coaches
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
apology apologizing
I didn't have anything to apologize for.
way lost temper
I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
jobs player together
The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
fraud committed find-me
No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud
technology finance accounting
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
boss growing owners
We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.