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I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.

Kenneth Lay

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Kenneth Lay
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: April 15
Died: 2006
Died: July 5
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I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.
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Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework.
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We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.
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I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.
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The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
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Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.
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Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.
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I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.
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The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.
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They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.
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Every market is in transition.
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But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.
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Investors don't like uncertainty.
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But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.
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I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.
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The transmission systems are still regulated.
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We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.
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