Jeffrey Skilling Quotes

"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Ownership)

"Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Business)

"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
(Related: Thought, Growth, Company, Ownership, Years)

"We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Thought, People, Building, Company, Electricity)

"Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Business, Enron)

"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Progress, Months)

"We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Business, Success, Building, Competition, states, United)

"Was I believer in Enron Corporation? Yes, sir, I was."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Enron)

"The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point."
- Jeffrey Skilling

"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."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Life, Company, Enron)

"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Work, Hard work, Years)

"In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets."
- Jeffrey Skilling
(Related: Time, Decision, Company, Energy, Problems)