Top 20 Worldcom's Quotes
#1. The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.
Kathryn Stockett
#2. 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
#3. I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.
Luis Suarez
#4. You wonder at power yoked to service. You wonder because you have come into power young and are learning that power comes through the acceptance of a bond. But if to have power is to be bound, then what is power?
Max Gladstone
#5. 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
#6. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel
#7. 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
#8. While you were anesthetized to the tragedy of life you were able to survive. When clarity was returned to you, when it was painstakingly restored, it could drive you mad.
Salman Rushdie
#9. 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
#10. I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#11. Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.
Spencer W. Kimball
#12. 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
#14. He felt that in the depth of his soul something had been put in its place, settled down, and laid to rest.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
Ilana Glazer
#16. 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
#17. Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.
Don Nickles
#18. I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.
Lara Jean Chorostecki
#19. Which was what she hated about the countryside, no distraction from the dirty messed-up workings of the heart.
Mark Haddon
#20. We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.
Dan Quayle
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