Zitat des Tages über Enron:
We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.
Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.
The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.
You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was.
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.
Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.
But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.
Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.
People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.
I remember when I did my Enron film, my executive producers at the time felt very strongly that I should mock the Enron executives more viciously because everybody wanted that moment.
Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.
In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.
Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business.
When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.
I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.
Things that have happened with Enron and companies like that, where they've squandered their employees' pension funds, I think it has brought a new level of anxiety. People don't feel like they can trust their employer.
Was I believer in Enron Corporation? Yes, sir, I was.
Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.
But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.
I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.
I've never commented much about my experience at Enron except to say, when I was there, it was a much more pipeline and asset-oriented company.
There was loose talk of Enron management practices and reminders of a scandal at the University of Toronto, when a big donor corporation, Eli Lilly, was said to have vetoed the appointment of an academic who doubted the effectiveness of Prozac.
I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.
