More Enron Flashcards
The greatest of these [aspects of humanity]…
Is money”
Skilling - power/greed
Let’s. Fucking.
Play”
Skilling - greed/power
“That’s cause you’re…
Weak”
Skilling to Fastow - power/masculinity
“You want..
mine?”
Fastow offering shoes to skilling - power play/ ingratiating
“Hey fuck it…
Two guys in a room”
Fastow imitating Skilling’s expletive lexis “those Washington fucks”
Skilling “gets
On the floor”
Loss of power
“I hope
Your dick falls off”
Prostitute to Skilling
Power loss
“In a bathrobe and
Eating a Twinkie”
Describing Skilling - power loss
“He ups Fastow’s…
Speed again” on a running machine
Power play/masculinity
Skilling had “death
weekends”
Masculinity and hubris
“Let’s rape…
this motherfucker”
Trader - masculinity and aggression
“Andy Fastow”
Skilling - formal to show hubris and masculinity
A trader “shows him….
His penis”
Demeaning Fastow - masculinity
“I’m fucking
Smart!”
Skilling - hubris/entitlement
“Some people are…
Fucking idiots”
Skilling - hubris/entitlement
“Every extraordinary thing…
was conceived by a man alone”
Skilling - entitlement/masculinity
“She left me…
But I LEFT her”
Skilling - entitlement, business and relationships
“When I’m…
CFO”
Fastow - entitlement
“I don’t want to
Work for you”
Skilling to roe - entitlement/sexism
“There’s nothing Skilling…
Don’t know”
Trader - illusion/power
“Magical…
music playing”
looking at the ideology of Enron - illusion vs reality
“Skilling looks down…
On the Enron he envisioned beneath him”
Messianic/god like creator - illusions vs reality of traders
“You [skilling] seem to know where…
The money is coming from”
Reporter - illusion vs reality
Fastow is in his “shady…” below physically and economically …Enron above “like a large…
lair….sustaining…supportive web”
Illusion vs reality
“Clever
girls”
Fastow - insubstantial computer programme manifests as raptors - illusion vs reality
“Ok”
Tautologous self serving and cyclical response to the suggestion of LJM repeated 9 time
Illusion vs reality!
“In a corporate
boardroom”
sex and business mixed
“In the Enron
jet”
sex and business mixed
“only thing that keeps their hands..
Off their dicks and into work”
Skilling - money and relationships confused priorities
To succeed in business you need
Honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake those you’ve got it made”
Groucho Marx
