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
chairman open
the chairman told us he would keep an open mind.
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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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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,
church
I want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
growth important engagement
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.
technology engineering economy
I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
ideas people economy
I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
being-wrong
I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.
selling assets process
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.
used available
I used practically all the money I had available.
boss growing owners
We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
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.
church want crooks
I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook