Occupation: Businessman Birth: April 15, 1942 Death: July 5, 2006
There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure..
Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away..
They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity..
But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal..
I don't think I'm a criminal, number one..
Every market is in transition..
You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position..
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 ….
Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other c….
Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled..
We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest..
In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time..
I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses..
Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets..
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 ….
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 opportun….
When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall..
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues..
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..
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 ev….
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..