Enron Quotations Flashcards

1
Q

“Money and sex motivate people Andy”

A

Skilling

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2
Q

“We’re changing people’s lives, we’re changing the world”

A

Skilling

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3
Q

“Only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win”

A

Skilling

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4
Q

“I believe I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass”

A

Fastow

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5
Q

“I’m sorry I thought I was the only woman in the room”

A

Roe

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6
Q

“like a religious cult. Skilling is messiah-like”

A

Stage Direction

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7
Q

“Society would be the state or the church, but now it’s the company”

A

Lay

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8
Q

“An unholy partnership”

A

Raptors

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9
Q

“In the heat of America, Texas, in the heart of Texas, Houston. There was a company”

A

Prologue, microcosm.

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10
Q

“closest thing to hunting, closest thing there is to sex- for a man that is”

A

Trader 1. Primal, before an age of morality

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11
Q

“company running on Darwinian principles”

A

Skilling

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12
Q

“Risk is Life”

A

Fastow

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13
Q

“I don’t like that talk, that’s un-supportive”

A

Lay

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14
Q

“Enron gets virtual”

A

Reporter

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15
Q

“All money is debt It’s just how you present it”

A

Fastow

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16
Q

“If something is brought before me I have to act on it. Doesn’t have to be brought before me of course”

A

Lay.

17
Q

“Another day, another death”

“Laughter”

A

Report / Stage Direction

18
Q

“I hate those guys… I went to school with them”

A

Skilling

19
Q

“We’re a black box”

A

Fastow

20
Q

“I believed I was a hero in the context of Enron’s culture”

A

Fastow

21
Q

“there’s nothing Skilling don’t know”

A

Trader

22
Q

“his arms outstretched crucifying himself before the market”

A

Stage Direction

23
Q

“A marlovian overreacher”

A

Billington

24
Q

“hopless nerd, yet he transforms himself into a swaggering Ubermensch”

A

Benedictus