Enron Quotes Flashcards
What is within every great man?
‘Within every great man there’s a buried risk’
Fastow circles the room
‘Fastow, a nervy, lupine guy in his thirties, is circling with an unsettling grin.’
Skillings unappealing description
‘He looks like a bespectacled, overweight, balding accountant.’
Lay makes a point
‘I make a point of knowing people, son’
‘You don’t belong to me, boy.’
Skilling and Roe just fucked
‘Skilling and Roe finish having clothed, quick sex.
Skilling is a solitary transgressor
‘[…] maybe every extraordinary thing that’s ever happened was conceived by a man alone in a room at four in the morning.’
Roe’s world domination.
‘You want power? Enron. India? Enron. South America? Enron.’
Lay is his work
‘I am oil and pipelines’
An orgy of speculation opens - It’s all in Skilling’s head.
‘Magical music’
‘Above us somewhere there is a twinkle of gold.’
‘Musical cacophony of the trading floor’
‘It is beautiful’
The traders interrupts Skilling’s day-dreaming
‘This empty, beautiful purity in Skilling’s head is interrupted by the reality of the Traders’ arrival’
The traders like Skilling
‘There’s nothing Skilling don’t know.’
‘He say, ‘Only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win.’’
Vulgar displays by the traders having beaten Fastow
‘You’re gonna take it in the ass.’
An orgasmic deal for trader one
‘Trader 1 is delighted, filled with testosterone and joy.’
The nature of trading and hunting
‘Closest thing there is to hunting. Closest thing there is to sex. For a man, that is.’
Let’s trim the fat
‘Trimming the fat’
‘The hum of manly pursuits.’
Skilling’s been taking a leaf out of Herbert Spencer’s book.
‘Read Dawkins, The Selfish Gene’
‘Business is nature.’
What motivates people?
‘Money and sex motivate people, Andy. And money is the one that gets their hand off their dick and into work.’
Skilling’s advice to Andy
‘Never apologise, Andy.’
Skilling’s a hubristic dickhead
‘I’m fucking smart. And I like guys with spikes.’
Skilling is trying to market Enron.
‘We’re a powerhouse for ideas.’
‘Ha! I’m Enron.’