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Enron Quotes Flashcards

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Lawyer quote from the prologue

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‘The beating heart of the economic world’
Broadway version plays national anthem.

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Quote to describe Fastow

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‘a nervy, lupine guy in his thirties’
‘he’s just a guy, I’m a guy’

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Sexist quote about vogue’s most powerful woman

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‘you settled for the fourteenth most powerful woman in the world’

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Xenophobic quote about being a gas and oil company

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‘When you say ‘gas and oil’ people think … trapped wind and Arabs’

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Skilling’s overreaching ideas about having a moment of genius

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‘If you have a moment of genius, that will be rewarded now’

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Skilling’s quote about people’s viewpoints

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‘Like everyone’s viewpoint is equally valid’

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A great idea at four in the morning

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‘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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Skilling’s religion

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‘You’re a godless atheist’

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Name of scene four

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‘An orgy of speculation’

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Quote linking to Faustus selling his soul for reward

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‘Only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win’

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Sexist quotes about men working

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‘Closest thing there is to hunting. Closest thing there is to sex. For a man, that is.’
‘the hum of manly pursuits’

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Quote about survival of the fittest

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‘I got this company running on Darwinian principles’

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Nicknames of Claudia Roe’s department

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‘Tits industries’
‘Skank of America’

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Everyone has gotten laser eye surgery according to Roe

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‘Everyone’s copying Daddy’
‘Can’t find a soul in the building with glasses now’ - links to Faustus

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Fastow wants the company to have an affair

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‘I want Enron to have a mistress’

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The brilliance of the basement in LJM

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‘Everything upstairs is bullshit compared to this’

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Skilling’s ambition within business

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‘Doesn’t matter how you win - as long as you win’
‘Doesn’t matter if it’s a bad deal, just get the deal done’

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Skilling’s daughter disappears

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‘she has disappeared, leaving only bubbles in her wake’

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The election

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‘We got a local boy in the race’
2000 US election - 0.09% margin
537 votes separated the candidates in Florida

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Success of the raptors

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‘They’re consuming a billion dollars worth of debt’
Shows how Enron is corrupt which contrasts the four core values written in the lobby of Enron.
Integrity, communication, respect and excellence

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Fastow is vain

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‘I don’t care what they say about the company. As long as they don’t make me look bad’

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Opening scene quotes to describe Lay?

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‘The most powerful man in the room’
‘Practised southern hospitality’

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The reason for the opening party?

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Skilling - ‘I’m the reason you’re here’

24
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Where did Skilling and roe have sex?

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‘We didn’t have penetrative sex on the Enron jet’

25
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Expletive comments made by traders in the orgy of speculation?

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Come on then, motherfucker, you want to play?’
About Fastow - ‘lapdog motherfucker’
Later comment in the California electricity section - ‘Let’s rape this motherfucker!’

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How does Fastow enter the gym?

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‘with trepidation in a suit’

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Business has replaced Christianity?

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‘Business is nature.’

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Cultural reference from the daughter?

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‘Show me the money!’
‘Daughter appears somewhere high up’ - proxemics reflect detachment

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Business is more important than family?

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‘I was on the phone from the hospital negotiating my deal’

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Skilling dislikes touching Fastow?

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‘Skilling shakes off the foolish physical intimacy’

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How does Fastow use the raptor models?

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‘To make a sort of shadow company. A virtual Enron.’

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Cultural reference to Indiana Jones?

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The red box - ‘The men are bathed in it like some totem from an Indiana Jones film’

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Description of Arthur Anderson?

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Their idea is ‘poor to very poor’ - from Little Arthur. They will approve the strategy if the lawyers approve

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Position of the photographer?

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‘The photographer is beneath him to make him look impressive, god-like’ (about Skilling)

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What is the construct of LJM?

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‘designed literally and metaphorically to ‘support’ the level above it, Enron’ - proxemics
simile - ‘like a large, supportive web’

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Hyperbolic rhetorical question about Enron’s shadow?

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‘Everyone wants to invest in our shadow …?

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What are the raptors doing?

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‘They’re consuming our debt.’
‘They’re consuming a billion dollars worth of debt.’

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Skilling is not sure how to pray?

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‘Skilling copies him.’
‘He watches Lay, not sure what to do.’

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What can Skilling not do?

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‘I haven’t been sleeping. People need to get paid.’
‘I haven’t slept since I was fourteen’

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Cultural allusion from the traders?

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‘Burn baby, burn!

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How often do the traders think about the Roman empire?

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‘We’re like the Roman empire!’

42
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What were the names of the strategies in California?

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‘Ricochet! Fat Boy! Burn Out! Death Star!’
‘Death Star - makes it sound like kids on a video game’

43
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Skilling becomes paranoid?

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‘You think you’re being bugged, sir?’
‘There’s a sort of ticking sound’

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Skillings ownership over Fastow?

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‘I created you!’
‘Be a fucking man!’

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Misogynistic comment to Sheryl Sloman, who was a professional stock analyst?

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‘You’ve been a great cheerleader for us’

46
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Sheryl’s comments about Enron?

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‘I believed in Enron. Everybody did.’
‘As long as people didn’t ask stupid questions.’ - Ask why?

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Skilling says that he will testify?

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‘I’m here to explain what happened. And how I can help’

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The US government is corrupt?

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‘The American government will not stand for corporate crime on this scale. I mean, on any scale.’

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Does Fastow take responsibility?

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‘I believe that I was extremely greedy and that I lost my moral compass’

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Skilling accuses the prostitute?

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‘Are you with them?’

51
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Skilling is no longer taking care of himself?

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‘Eventually Skilling enters in his robe, drinking a Diet Coke and eating a Twinkie’

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Does Skilling take responsibility?

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‘I told my daughter I was innocent. I believe I am innocent.’
‘I’m not a bad man. I’m not an unusual man. I just wanted to change the world.’ - Broadway - sound of prison doors slamming

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Skilling about morality?

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‘If you want an objective morality present in every contract, you’re living in a dream.’

54
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Mindset is to do with money?

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‘All humanity is here. There’s Greed, there’s Fear, Joy, Faith, Hope … An the greatest of these … is Money’
Broadway - Sound of Enron Ask why?
This is a quote from the bible, instead of money it is love

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