Bernard Ebbers Quotes

Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

When a government agency is more efficient, they’re not necessarily going to get that money back. So they don’t always have an incentive.

There's usually room in the theme parks business for efficiencies on the cost side and new investment, which drives traffic.

Our continued investment in productivity will add to our margins, and you'll see that reflected in the bottom line earnings.

We care about margins.

We have a powerful portfolio of brands that are well-positioned for future growth, both domestically and internationally.

Our progress isn't just limited to the operation. Financially, we have been performing well. United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history, and we made significant progress shrinking the margin gap with our closest competitors, strengthening our balance sheet, and returning significant cash to shareholders.

I run businesses all around the United States, all around the globe.

China and Hong Kong represent an enormous growth opportunity for McDonald's.

We are growing both in the U.S. and in India, and all our business plans are made accordingly. So we are expanding both in U.S. and in India.

If you're looking for investment you've got to think about what the investor gets from being involved with your business. A lot of people think about what they're getting from their point of view but not about what the investor gets out of a deal.

Wayne, Jon, and the SeventySix Capital team are best in class and committed to building successful companies. Together, by leveraging the full weight of our knowledge, expertise and relationships, we can make a huge impact at home in Philadelphia and around the world.

We are addressing duplication and complexity. At the same time, we are investing more in research and development, speeding up the time to market of new innovations, and expanding our sales force in markets where growth is to be found, like Turkey, Russia, the Mideast, China, and southeast Asia.

I chose to invest everything in my own private companies.

The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.

Our customers, system, and shareholders are best served when we direct our focus and energy towards executing against these critical customer expectations.

While I remain disappointed with our topline development in 2016, we continue to expect our performance to improve in 2017 and see the potential for margin expansion in 2017 and beyond, as market conditions improve and our sales transformation programs gain further traction.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.