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
way lost temper
I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
condemns few fully incidents sales since
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.
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,
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.
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.
used available
I used practically all the money I had available.
selling assets process
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.
being-wrong
I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.