Great Ken Lay quote, submitted for your approval.

[raccoon]

“Our performance has never been stronger; our business model has never been more robust; our growth has never been more certain.”

-----Email from Ken Lay to all Enron employees, August 14, 2001.

(Quoted in Brian Cruver’s ANATOMY OF GREED.
Less than 4 months later, on December 2, 2001, Enron filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
At the time of the email, Lay was President, CEO, and Chairman of Board of Directors for Enron.)

I just HAD to share this with you guys!

[madame defarge]

1. Sounds just like boosh...

They probably shared the same speechwriter...

"Our country has never been stronger; our economy has never been more robust; our freedom has never been more certain."

[babylonsister]

2. And that's why all those employees got screwed. nt

[Canuckistanian]

3. He was speaking about the Executive Renumeration Plan

What, you thought he was talking about the company performance?

[gratuitous]

4. It was about that same time

It was about that time that Lay was telling all the employees to invest as heavily as they could in Enron stock. Fortunately, there was a lot of Enron stock to be bought -- Lay and the other folks in the know were quietly dumping their stock, because they knew the million pound shithammer was coming down.

[kenny blankenship]

5. He was so busy turning corners and hitting major turning points, like Bush

his good buddy who seized the White House and then Iraq, that he forgot he was going out of business. I guess success went to both of their heads.