Fastow Quotes

#1. Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable.
Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings.
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Kurt Eichenwald

#2. If it rusts, it can never be trusted
If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him
Yes, pride is like a blade

Tite Kubo

#3. Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.

Andrew Fastow

#4. The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

George Eliot

#5. Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God. (Heb. 6:1)

Matt Chandler

#6. There is much more good gained from having a fully functioning financial market than there ever is not having that.

John Key

#7. There are people who look at the rules and find ways to structure around them. The more complex the rules, the more opportunities.

Andrew Fastow

#8. I believe I was extremely greedy.

Andrew Fastow

#9. There is no safety. There is only forgetfulness.

Richard Powers

#10. When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Andrew Fastow

#11. A sea to intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire ...

Charles Dickens

#12. We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.

Elisabeth Elliot

#13. For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

Sakyong Mipham

#14. I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

Andrew Fastow

#15. I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

Helen Mirren

#16. It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place; that the urge to self-destruct will magically disappear.

Stephen King

#17. 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.

Andrew Fastow

#18. It takes strength, man, to know when to let go of your kids, really, really let them go and trust them with the one who made them in the first place.

Carlos Santana

#19. One day we will be free. And we become free by living despite what they do to us. We live by working, and we work for God.

Kristy Cambron

#20. The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

Andrew Fastow