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Enron Quotes Flashcards

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What is within every great man?

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‘Within every great man there’s a buried risk’

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Fastow circles the room

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‘Fastow, a nervy, lupine guy in his thirties, is circling with an unsettling grin.’

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Skillings unappealing description

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‘He looks like a bespectacled, overweight, balding accountant.’

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Lay makes a point

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‘I make a point of knowing people, son’
‘You don’t belong to me, boy.’

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Skilling and Roe just fucked

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‘Skilling and Roe finish having clothed, quick sex.

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Skilling is a solitary transgressor

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‘[…] maybe every extraordinary thing that’s ever happened was conceived by a man alone in a room at four in the morning.’

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Roe’s world domination.

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‘You want power? Enron. India? Enron. South America? Enron.’

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Lay is his work

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‘I am oil and pipelines’

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An orgy of speculation opens - It’s all in Skilling’s head.

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‘Magical music’
‘Above us somewhere there is a twinkle of gold.’
‘Musical cacophony of the trading floor’
‘It is beautiful’

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The traders interrupts Skilling’s day-dreaming

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‘This empty, beautiful purity in Skilling’s head is interrupted by the reality of the Traders’ arrival’

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The traders like Skilling

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‘There’s nothing Skilling don’t know.’
‘He say, ‘Only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win.’’

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Vulgar displays by the traders having beaten Fastow

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‘You’re gonna take it in the ass.’

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An orgasmic deal for trader one

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‘Trader 1 is delighted, filled with testosterone and joy.’

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The nature of trading and hunting

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‘Closest thing there is to hunting. Closest thing there is to sex. For a man, that is.’

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15
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Let’s trim the fat

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‘Trimming the fat’
‘The hum of manly pursuits.’

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16
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Skilling’s been taking a leaf out of Herbert Spencer’s book.

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‘Read Dawkins, The Selfish Gene’
‘Business is nature.’

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17
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What motivates people?

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‘Money and sex motivate people, Andy. And money is the one that gets their hand off their dick and into work.’

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Skilling’s advice to Andy

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‘Never apologise, Andy.’

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Skilling’s a hubristic dickhead

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‘I’m fucking smart. And I like guys with spikes.’

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Skilling is trying to market Enron.

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‘We’re a powerhouse for ideas.’
‘Ha! I’m Enron.’

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21
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Skilling is Lay’s…

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‘Golden boy.’

22
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Skilling’s daughter is an enigma

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‘Skilling’s daughter appears somewhere high up, not close to him.’
‘His daughter fades into the dark’

23
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Roe should have gone to specsavers

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‘Cant’t find a soul in the building with glasses now. Everyone’s copying Daddy.’

24
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An unholy partnership begins…

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‘darkly, Fastow’s lair: a dingy place at the bottom of Enron.’

25
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What is life?

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‘Risk is life, basically.’

26
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The perception and the reality of Enron stock is shocking.

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‘those actual profits aren’t coming through yet.’
‘The gap between the perception and the reality is…’

27
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Fastow wishes for Enron to be unfaithful.

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‘I want to give Enron a mistress.’

28
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Fastow wants Enron to be as the shadow.

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‘To male a sort of shadow company. A virtual Enron.’
‘Everyone wants to invest in our shadow…? Why?!’

29
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The red box is the beating heart of Enron’s corruption

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‘The tiny box glows red and throbs.’
‘The tiny red box is safely put away, buried. We can see it throb.’
‘The red box throbs from deep beneath.’

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Skilling’s messiah-complex is showing.

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‘The photographer is beneath him to make him look impressive, god-like.’
‘Reaction is ecstatic, like a religious cult. Skilling is messiah-like.’

31
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Fastow meets the raptors

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‘Clever girls.’

32
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LJM is set up and fully operational. Fastow is Varys-like.

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‘LJM has been fully and complexly constructed like a large, supportive web.’

33
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Lay speaks of the death of individualism after The Purge.

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‘You know how you tell the scout on a pioneer wagon?
Beat.
He’s the one with all the arrows sticking out of him.’

34
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Motif of the cigar/Cigarettes/smoking

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‘You want to have a cigar?’
‘Skilling picks up the cigar left him’
‘Roe is having a last cigarrette outside on the rooftop[…]’

35
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Skillings daughter matters to him so very much.

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‘Why?’
‘I have to check the stock price.’
‘It’s important because I want people to like me.’
‘Because I love you. Now let Daddy get back to work.’

36
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Lay’s ‘Good news, everyone!’

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‘And we got ourselves a deregulated state to play with.’

37
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Texas vs California - Bro down

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‘Traders are manipulating California’s electricity market by moving energy around.’

38
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The traders are so toxic - Rebecca, probably.

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‘Burn, baby, burn!’
‘We’re like the Roman empire! We’re going fucking down!’
‘Let’s rape this motherfucker!’

39
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Death star is stupid!

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‘That’s a perception problem.’

40
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Skilling is humiliated!

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‘Skilling’s head is leaning on his wrist with his watch on.’

41
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It’s all going to shit for Fatso, Skilly and Lay.

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‘But we are a black box, Jeff’

42
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Fastow wants LJM to live!

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‘I created LJM.’
‘I Created you!’

43
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Skilling’s peripatia.

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‘Asshole.’

44
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The stock price! Oh, God!

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‘The stock price drops slightly, Skilling recoils with shock.’

45
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Lay’s speech post-911.

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‘Just like America’s under attack by terrorism, I think we’re under attack, at Enron.’
‘Truth is the great rock.’
‘We will let the light shine in.’
‘Collapse.’

46
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The Circle of Blame O.

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‘We committed crimes at Enron.’
‘No, you committed crimes at Enron!’

47
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Justice is served

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‘Lay and Fastow are cuffed. Skilling is cuffed.’

48
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Skilling believes he is innocent.

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‘I told my daughter I was innocent. I believe I am innocent.’
‘Neither of those things make you innocent.’

49
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The voice of the worker

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‘My name is Irene Gant[…] I’ve lost a hundred and fifty thousand dollars.’
‘Oh, am I embarrassing you?! I’m sorry. Am I embarrassing you?!’
‘She spits at him and leaves.’

50
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Skilling is unrepentant.

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‘I’m not a bad man. I’m not an unusual man. I just wanted to change the world.’

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