Kenneth Lay Quotes

• I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.

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  Integrity, Character, Responsibility

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• Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.

  Kenneth Lay

  Mean, Doe, Illegal

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• I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

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  Dream, Years, Lasts

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• The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

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  Failure, July, Tragedy

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• I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

  Kenneth Lay

  Mistake, Responsibility, Criminals

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• There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

  Kenneth Lay

  Issues, Problem, Economy

  "Kenneth Lay: Enron's embattled ex-chairman" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2002.

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• The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

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  Criminals, Would Be, Lasts

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• I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.

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  Opportunity, Leader, Trying

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• I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this.

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  Mistake, Believe, Jail

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• Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

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  Thinking, Fool, Fooled

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• If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

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  Law, Scandal, Corruption

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• We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.

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  Strong, People, Able

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• Investors don't like uncertainty.

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  Investors, Uncertainty

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• I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

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  Ten fe

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• Every market is in transition.

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  Transition, Economy

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• They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.

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  Economy, Electricity, Can Do

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• I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.

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  Correr, Fuerte, Dos

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• We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.

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  Opportunity, Looks, Concern

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• You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

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  Economy, Surplus, Shortage

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• Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

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  Dollars, World, Financial

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• It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.

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  Lying, People, Interesting

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• I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Criminals

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• The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

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  California, Problem, Economy

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• Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.

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  Sides, Economy, Electricity

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• But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

  Kenneth Lay

  California, Enron

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