Jeffrey Skilling Quotes

I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.

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.

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.

In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.

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.

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.

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.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.

Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.

People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia.

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.

We have to raise the bar on corporate governance. Shareholders want ethical behavior and honesty.

It should be as much the aim of those who seek social betterment to rid the business world of crimes of cunning as to rid the entire body politic of crimes of violence.

Let business oversee itself.

Republicans do not have good ideas. Borrowing two trillion dollars from your grandchildren to finance a Social Security scheme that looks like Enron is not a good idea.