Quotes About Worldcom

#1. Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

Bennie Thompson

#2. If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

Arthur Levitt

#4. But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

Don Nickles

#5. By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

Matt Taibbi

#6. Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

Don Nickles

#7. The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. I don't view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to use a gun as a tool, and I view myself as a victim of the legislators at the time who left me defenseless.

Suzanna Hupp

#9. Erik wondered if they saw the irony of such a tiny complex expecting to find the cure from the very lives they minimized in comparison to the whole. If such small, little lives mattered not, how could they believe anything they did would matter?

Ellie Lieberman

#10. Am I over existing or am I over existing? That's my inside joke.

Ryan Trecartin

#11. The laws of the Islamic state would be derived first from the Koran. But since only about six hundred of its six thousand verses are concerned with law, and only about eighty of these deal directly with crime, punishments, contracts and family law, other sources also have to be consulted. The

Geraldine Brooks

#12. Under the gas lamps, mist pawed at the windows of the closed shops, which became steadily shabbier nearer home. It was such a smooth ruination that he could have been walking forward through time, watching the same buildings age five years with every step, all still as a museum

Natasha Pulley

#13. I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do.

Frank Deford

#14. If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.

Rick Smolan

#15. She looked away from him, drawing hard on her Rothman's; when her mouth puckered into hard little lines around the cigarette, it looked like a cat's anus.

Robert Galbraith

#16. The glory of youth is the grace of strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. That which does not kill us often makes us wish it had.

- Jason's First law

Jason Dias

#18. You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything. Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.

Carrie Vaughn

#19. I've missed this," he said with a groan. "The way you fuck yourself against my face.

Elle Aycart

#20. To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

Edward Gibbon

#21. You have to live to really know things, my love

Dan Simmons