(201 quotes found)
“Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.”
Jon Stewart
“the powerful lesson from Enron for me is the power of self delusion and how people rationalise and deceive themselves. And I think when Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling say they are innocent now, as they do with their trial approaching in early 2006, they mean it on a certain level. One smart financial observer said to me that he's never met the CEO of a fraudulent company who didn't come to believe in what he'd created.”
Bethany McLean
“This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.”
Senator John Kerry
“I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.”
Kenneth Lay
“Enron is the name that everyone associates with the period.”
Ann Yerger
“The shredder at Andersen's office at the Enron building was used virtually constantly and, to handle the overload, dozens of large trunks filled with Enron documents were sent [to] Andersen's main Houston office to be shredded,”
Arthur Andersen
“Chase concocted the fraud with Enron. Chase was right in bed with Enron to structure these transactions to hide Enron's debt,”
Alan Levine
“There are thousands of companies that are honestly run, but ... Enron has spilled over into other companies, ... I think Enron is unique, but the worry is still there.”
Bernadette Murphy
“It's one of the few positive things to come out of Enron.”
Andrea Miller
“There are thousands of companies that are honestly run, but ... Enron has spilled over into other companies. I think Enron is unique, but the worry is still there.”
