Kenneth Lay Quotes

United States, Businessman
April 15, 1942 – July, 5, 2006.

Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 – July 5, 2006) was an American businessman best known for his involvement in the Enron scandal. He was founder, CEO and Chairman of Enron Corporation for most of its existence which reached a value of $63 billion.

You'll have lower prices under deregulation than you will through regulation.

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

Kenneth Lay
- Faith

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

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- Fall
We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.

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- Up
- Competition
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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- Time
- Political
- Strong
Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

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

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- Power
- California
We've tried to get as much supply into California as we can.

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- California

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

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- Good
- California
Every market is in transition.

Kenneth Lay