Enron Quotations Flashcards
“Money and sex motivate people Andy”
Skilling
“We’re changing people’s lives, we’re changing the world”
Skilling
“Only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win”
Skilling
“I believe I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass”
Fastow
“I’m sorry I thought I was the only woman in the room”
Roe
“like a religious cult. Skilling is messiah-like”
Stage Direction
“Society would be the state or the church, but now it’s the company”
Lay
“An unholy partnership”
Raptors
“In the heat of America, Texas, in the heart of Texas, Houston. There was a company”
Prologue, microcosm.
“closest thing to hunting, closest thing there is to sex- for a man that is”
Trader 1. Primal, before an age of morality
“company running on Darwinian principles”
Skilling
“Risk is Life”
Fastow
“I don’t like that talk, that’s un-supportive”
Lay
“Enron gets virtual”
Reporter
“All money is debt It’s just how you present it”
Fastow
“If something is brought before me I have to act on it. Doesn’t have to be brought before me of course”
Lay.
“Another day, another death”
“Laughter”
Report / Stage Direction
“I hate those guys… I went to school with them”
Skilling
“We’re a black box”
Fastow
“I believed I was a hero in the context of Enron’s culture”
Fastow
“there’s nothing Skilling don’t know”
Trader
“his arms outstretched crucifying himself before the market”
Stage Direction
“A marlovian overreacher”
Billington
“hopless nerd, yet he transforms himself into a swaggering Ubermensch”
Benedictus
