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"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently."
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"Better be alone than in bad company."
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"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."
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"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company."
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"We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now."
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"I'm not fit company for man or beast."
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"I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me."
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"I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs."
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"When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same."
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"Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics."
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"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently."
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"Was I believer in Enron Corporation? Yes, sir, I was."
Enron
"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently."
Company
"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
Work
"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."
Time
"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."
Thought
"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."
Progress
"Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that."
Business
"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."
Life
"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."
Thought
"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."
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