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Bernard Ebbers16 quotes“We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.”
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I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers I don’t know technology and engineering. I don’t know accounting.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers I don’t know about technology and I don’t know about finance and accounting.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers 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.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers I used practically all the money I had available.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers The coachs job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers 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 EbbersBernard Ebbers 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.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers I know what I don’t know. To this day, I don’t know technology, and I don’t know finance or accounting.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers I wasn’t ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I’ve been in the process of selling others.
Bernard EbbersBernard Ebbers I didn’t have anything to apologize for.
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ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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Good luck, boss. Don’t let’em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)
Rick RiordanRick Riordan The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don’t have to listen to everything they think or say.
Baron VaughnBaron Vaughn I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn’t want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn’t want a boss.
Barbara CorcoranBarbara Corcoran The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
Elena FerranteElena Ferrante A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
Liz TrussLiz Truss He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
William FeatherWilliam Feather
