Enron quotes

Skilling Prologue

It is creating an open, transparent marketplace that replaces the dark, blind system that existed

Lawyer prologue

Within every great man there is a buried risk

Skilling speech

For those who don’t know, I’m the reason you’re here

Skilling speech cont

The market will recognise your idea and your profit in that moment

Scene 2 setting

*In a corporate boardroom,, high up, Skilling and Roe finish having clothed, quick sex*

Traders on skilling

He says ‘Only people prepared to lose are ever gonna win

Traders on skilling’s work trips

Someone’s gonna fucking die/ That’s the coolest thing

Traders to Fastow

Come on then, motherfucker, you wanna play with the big boys?

Skilling recommends to Fastow

Read Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

Skilling punishing Fastow

*He ups Fastow’s speed. Fastow tries to keep up*

Dramatisation of capitalism

*The Analysts become a barbershop quartet and sing*

Skilling’s daughter

**Skillings Daughter** *appears somewhere high up, not close to him*

Sexualisation of capitalism

I want to give Enron a mistress

red

He opens the matchbox and takes out a tiny red, glowing box

godlike

The photographer beneath him to make him look impressive god like

next big thing

 Here’s the next big thing, people trading bandwidth

personification of raptors

Clever girls

biblical symbolism

Everything upstairs is bullshit compared to this

king of numbers

Well, sure, I mean. I can tell clever numbers. I’m the king of em

roes soliloquy

And who is the most beautiful woman is irrelevant

sad skilling

It’s important because I want people to like me

traders

Let’s rape this motherfucker

manic skilling

There’s a sort of ticking sound

awareness

But we *are* a black box Jeff

delusional skilling

We are not! We’re a logistics company! With a ton of great ideas-

dead dog

Once you bury a dead dog, you don’t dig it up to smell it

controversial skilling

Asshole

crucifiction

He ends, his arms outstretched, crucifying himself before the market

court

And how do you feel about the employees whose families have lost their life savings?

Fastow saving himself

I believe I was extremely greedy and that I lost my moral compass. I’ve done terrible things that I very much regret

Fastow and Skilling in court

We knew and understood that is was wrong, I knew and understood that it was legal

contract

If you want objective morality present in every contract, you’re living in a dream

retirement money

I’ve lost a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I have no money to retire on

rejection of religion

Skilling is left alone watching the employees enter the church

last sentence

And the greatest of these….is Money