Bernard Ebbers Quotes

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Bernard Ebbers

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• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Movies
  • Stock
  • Silent

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Theory
  • Worth

• There are certain things women are better at than men.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Doing
  • Loved
  • Building

• When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Barbara Steele

• The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Idea

• When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Money
  • You
  • Desire

• For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Money
  • Love
  • Success

• I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

  

  Gary Allan
  • Cool
  • Door
  • Fans

• I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

  

  Florence King
  • Home
  • Rather
  • My Own

• After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • American
  • Son

• An outsider's point of view is always handy.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • World
  • Bad
  • Community

• People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Deep
  • Humor

• The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Up
  • Missing
  • Nothing

• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Want
  • Words

• Saks helps to empower women through how they look and feel - and Bumble wants to give all women a platform to connect with other empowered women, whether that's in dating, friendship, or business.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Business
  • Friendship

• When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Moment
  • Eating
  • Breathing

• There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes that wall and basically says, 'Self-promote or die.' And that is a bad head for any sort of artist to be forced into.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Bad
  • Die
  • Technology

• I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • History
  • Science

• I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Technology
  • Engineering