Ebbers Quotes

#1. Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Charlie Munger

#2. I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

Bernard Ebbers

#3. Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

Simone De Beauvoir

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

Bernard Ebbers

#5. 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.

Bernard Ebbers

#6. What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Seneca The Younger

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

Bernard Ebbers

#8. We don't work for each other, We work with each other.

Stanley Gault

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

Bernard Ebbers

#10. I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?

Bernard Ebbers

#11. The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

Bernard Ebbers

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

Bernard Ebbers

#13. We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

Bernard Ebbers

#14. The course of our lives is determined by how we react
what we decide and what we do
at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

Daisaku Ikeda

#15. Who ever said the world was fair?

Cassandra Clare

#16. I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

Bernard Ebbers

#17. We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed.

Bernard Ebbers

#18. I used practically all the money I had available.

Bernard Ebbers

#19. Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

Sonia Rykiel

#20. We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

Bernard Ebbers

#21. 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.

Bernard Ebbers

#22. I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

Bernard Ebbers

#23. No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

Bernard Ebbers

#24. I didn't have anything to apologize for.

Bernard Ebbers

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

Bernard Ebbers

#26. I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Bernard Ebbers

#27. Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

Bernard Ebbers

#28. One of the problems he will seek to solve is how to make his wife both a servant and a companion; his attitude will evolve throughout the centuries, and this will also entail an evolution in woman's destiny.11

Simone De Beauvoir

#29. I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

Bernard Ebbers

#30. I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Bernard Ebbers