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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I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
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I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
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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 just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook
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We are exploring opportunities to separate portions of our switched voice operations into separate companies or tracking stocks,
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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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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.
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We have now hit the ground running with new products and we will soon be in full stride as one company.
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I do not believe I have anything to hide, I believe that no one will conclude that I engaged in any criminal or fraudulent conduct.
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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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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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the chairman told us he would keep an open mind.
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We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed,