Bernard Ebbers Quotations

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.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

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

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

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

The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud

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

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

I used practically all the money I had available.