Skilling Quotes

#1. A lot of Congressmen yesterday were upset when Kenneth Lay took the Fifth. Lay said it wasn't his fault. He had planned on testifying, but when Jeffrey Skilling testified, he took all the really good lies.

Jay Leno

#2. Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling appeared before Congress. Do you think they even bothered swearing him in? Now he is denying he lied to Congress last week. He's saying it was just the liquor talking.

Jay Leno

#3. Over the weekend, former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Rebecca Carter married each other during a huge ceremony in Houston. The happy couple is planning to honeymoon for three weeks in front of Congress.

Conan O'Brien

#4. I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

Satish Kumar

#5. Former Enron founder Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty in the Enron case. Ken Lay is so guilty I'm surprised people aren't calling him Congressman Ken Lay. Wait 'till these guys find out in prison that insider trading has a whole new meaning.

Jay Leno

#6. The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.

Bethany McLean

#7. A jury found former Enron sleezeballs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud and conspiracy. Ken Lay? That's not a good name to have when you're going to prison. And Kenny Boy ain't too good either ... I guess in prison they'll have done to them what they did to the stockholders.

Jay Leno

#8. We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.

Rand Paul

#9. To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.

Giacomo Casanova

#10. if you are always drinking, you should probably never drive

Dmitry Dyatlov

#11. I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left.

Jeffrey Skilling

#12. Money supplants skill; it's possession allows us to become happily stupid.

Bill McKibben

#13. You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

Jeffrey Skilling

#14. History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself ...

A.S. Byatt

#15. I fear no one, but respect everyone.

Roger Federer

#16. (T)here is a record in the universe and that if we're attuned to it, we can go back and see it, hear it again, use it.

M.J. Rose

#17. 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.

Jeffrey Skilling

#18. A friend had told him that a man carried his pain like a tortoise carried his shell.

Anonymous

#19. God is wild; I am tame ... Night falls and an age ends ... We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own ...

Whitley Strieber

#20. Mike, we are a green energy company, but the green stands for money.

Jeffrey Skilling

#21. A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

Robert Motherwell

#22. I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.

Lil' Kim

#23. I love Photoshop more than anything in the world!

Jennifer Lawrence

#24. The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.

Jeffrey Skilling

#25. 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.

Jeffrey Skilling

#26. I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Jeffrey Skilling

#27. I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Camille Pissarro

#28. The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development

Jim Rohn