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
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It is very clear from our financial performance that our employees remained focused on delivering results. Our core management and employee strength -- which has predominantly come from successful mergers over the years -- continues to drive industry-leading performance,
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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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The benefits of this merger are compelling for the stockholders of both MCI and WorldCom -- powerful synergies and ownership in the best performing communications stock over the past decade. This merger is about growth -- value for stockholders, enhanced products and services for customers and new opportunities for employees,
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The merger will greatly expand our total number of local networks and advance our entrance into more secondary cities by as much as two years,
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Opposition to this merger just adds to the list of (Federal Communications Commission Chairman William) Kennard-Klein policies that ultimately will reduce innovation and choice and raise the cost of telephone services for residential customers, particularly those in rural America,
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WorldCom condemns unauthorized carrier switches, and we cooperated fully with the FCC's review, ... The incidents highlighted by the FCC were perpetrated by a few sales employees, who have since been terminated.
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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.
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I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.
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I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
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I didn't have anything to apologize for.
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I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
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The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
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No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud
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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.