18 Quotes by John Olson

The thing I like is there?s as much bad criticism as there is good,

Rather, at the time, it seemed that all Merchant Energy companies were sucked down by the Enron undertow.

A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.

This is as high a high-wire act as I have ever seen. If this merger is to survive, equity investors will need to have a reason to buy the stock and their confidence will need to be restored, because the equity investor has been leading the way down.

It's basically silly season up there. In essence, as long as the United States is such a tremendously energy-intensive country, as long as China, India and the like are clawing their way up the consumption curve, we're going to have tight markets.

The board cannot be expected to surrender its authority to another branch of government; there is a fundamental issue of separation of powers here.

They could, I suppose, put in some mandatory penalties that would up the ante. But increasing penalties does not necessarily increase prosecutions. It may make them harder -- tougher penalties could make judges more cautious and raise more grounds for appeal.

They win on the income statement. They win on the balance sheet. And they win on the cash flow statement.

Candy's views on matters of public policy are something that I never try to influence, ... The notion that her decisions could be influenced by matters that affect my law firm is off the charts.