Enron Quotations

• ‘We’re trying to change the world.’

  (Skilling, Prologue, p. 1)
• [Fastow enters, all self-importance.] (1:4, p.

  24)
• ‘If your company accounts need filling/He’s

  available and willing/To see to it you make

  a killing!/Skilling, Skilling […]’ (Analyst

  quartet, 1:5, p. 33)
• ‘All these ideas are mine!’ (Skilling, 1:9, p.

  65)
• ‘Because they weren’t smart enough to

  work in the private sector. And that’s the

  truth. I got head-hunted.’ (Skilling, 2:7, p.

  79)
• ‘I created you.’ (Skilling to Fastow, 2:8, p.87)
• ‘It’s a way for us to realise the profits we’re

  gonna make now.’ (Skilling, 1:1, p. 8)
• [The gold glints somewhere in the

  audience.] (1:4, p.20)
• ‘Money and sex motivate people.’ (Skilling,

  1:5, p. 29)
• ‘I have to check the stock price.’ ‘Why?’

  ‘Because that’s how Daddy knows how

  much he is worth.’ ’ (Skilling and daughter,

  2:4, p. 68)
• ‘Who do you think is going to win in the

  end?! The greedy or the inept?!’ (Skilling

  2:7, p. 79)
• ‘Doesn’t matter how you win, as long as

  you win.’ (Skilling to Roe, 2:3, p. 67)
• [Skilling presses the stop button on

  Fastow’s running machine, hurtling the

  younger man from his treadmill.] (1:5, p.

  30)
• ‘Burn, baby, burn!’ (All traders, 2:6, p. 77)
• ‘I didn’t have to lie. You’re an amateur.’

  (Skilling to Roe after her firing, 2:3, p. 67)
• ‘Well that’s your fucking job, ain’t it?’

  (Skilling to Fastow, 2:5, p. 73)
• ‘mark-to-market, much more appropriate,

  much more transparent’ (Fastow, 1:1, p. 7)
• [The tiny

  box glows red and throbs.] (Fastow, 1:8, p.

  50)
• ‘The accountants and lawyers are OK with

  it if you’re OK with it, Ken.’ (Skilling, 1:8, p.

  52)
• ‘We are the good guys in California. We are

  on the side of the angels.’ (Skilling, 2:6, p.

  77)
• ‘So how ‘bout paying the prices we’re

  asking?’ (Lay to California Governor, 2:6, p.

  77)
• ‘But we didn’t do anything illegal in

  California.’ (Skilling to Lawyer, 2:7, p. 80)
• ‘Well, things become a lot easier with the

  stock options you’ve given us’ (Security

  Officer to Skilling, 2:7, p. 82)
• ‘One of Skilling’s death weekends, man! […]

  Someone’s gonna fuckin die.’ (Trader 2,

  1:4, p. 23)
• ‘Closest thing there is to hunting. Closest

  thing there is to sex. For a man that is.’

  Trader 1, 1:4, p. 27)
• [The hum of manly pursuits […] Skilling is

  on a running machine […] He’s pushing

  himself and relishing the physical

  challenge.] (1:5, p. 27)
• ‘Loopholes so big you could fuck a fat chick

  through ‘em.’ (Trader 3, 2:6, p. 76)
• ‘Be a fucking man!’ (Skilling to Fastow, 2:8,

  p. 87)
• ‘He says, ‘Only people prepared to lose are

  ever gonna win.’ ’(Trader 4 about Skilling,

  1:4, p.23)
• ‘Risk is life, basically.’ (Fastow, 1:8, p. 42)
• [Skilling falls to his knees with the relief.]

  After Republicans elected, 2:5, p. 75)
• ‘I’ve been thinking of taking Enron into

  weather.’ (Skilling to Security Officer, 2:7,

  p. 83)
• ‘The guy I know tried to change the world

  was the one behind the corporate crime

  that defined the end of the twentieth

  century.’ (Lawyer, Prologue)
• ‘the bubble’s gonna burst folks.’ (Roe, 1:7,

  p. 36)
• ‘You got a perception here, a reality here.

  You just need something to lean on while

  we bring this up.’ (Fastow, 1:8, p. 46)
• ‘Things have started getting divorced from

  the underlying realities.’ (Roe 2:2, p. 63)
• [Daughter […] has disappeared, leaving

  only bubbles in her wake.] 2:3, p. 69)
• ‘This is how it looks...I can’t make real

  money just appear.’ (Fastow to Skilling,

  2:5, p. 73)
• ‘What if they look and see that underneath

  there’s nothing actually there -’ (Fastow to

  Skilling, 2:8, p. 87)
• [Claudia Roe, a very attractive blonde

  woman of forty in a short skirt.] (1:1, p. 2)