48 Quotes by Bernard Ebbers

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

We very much regret that our merger with Sprint was not allowed to proceed,

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.

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,

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 didn't have anything to apologize for.

We have intensified our focus on what we do best -- provide core communications services, ... Including today's announcement with EDS, over the past year we have shed virtually all of our non-communications services businesses.

We are exploring opportunities to separate portions of our switched voice operations into separate companies or tracking stocks,