I didn't have anything to apologize for.
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I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.
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I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.
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I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
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I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
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I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
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I used practically all the money I had available.
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I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
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I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.
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The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
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We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.
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"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." 
- Bernie Ebbers Quote (Site Selection, May 1999)

"You have to keep labor a percent of sales. You take our total employees, divide that into revenue, and you get revenue per employee. We increase that efficiency every year, but we'll still be needing about 8,000 additional people a year." 
- Bernie Ebbers Quote (Site Selection, May 1999)