Businessman Quotes

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.

Treat your customers like lifetime partners.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.

There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

There are absolutely no problems that had anything to do with Jeff's departure.

The transmission systems are still regulated.

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

Our liquidity is fine. As a matter of fact, it's better than fine. It's strong.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.

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.

I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

Every market is in transition.

But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron.

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.