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It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work.
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Hard Work
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Was I believer in Enron Corporation? Yes, sir, I was.
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Believer
Enron
Corporation
Sir
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The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.
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Indictment
Turning Points
Way
Turning
Turning Point
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Mike, we are a green energy company, but the green stands for money.
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Energy
Green
Wind
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Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.
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Enjoyed
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I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.
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Progress
Six Months
Thinking
Tremendous
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I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.
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Bases
Ownership
Share
Basis
Net
Shares
Sold
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You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.
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Opportunity
Feels
Want
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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.
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Collapse
Enron
Helping
Larry
Professional Life
Shocked
Corporation
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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.
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Enron
Former
Wholesale
Consultant
Joined
Merchant
Predecessor
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Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently.
Jeffrey Skilling /
Retrospect
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We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.
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Opening
Wholesale
Largest
Toll
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I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company.
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Couple
Ownership
Strong
Thinking
Bought
Shares
Stock
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We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.
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Creating
Electricity
Gas
Great People
Marketplace
Natural Gas
Great People Way
Existed
Operated
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In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of people running for the exit signs, they just push the button on their computer.
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Running
Business
Yelling
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In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.
Jeffrey Skilling /
California
Decision
Real Problems
Time Me Remember
Time Decision Me
Chief
Chief Executive
Executive
Officer
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