the powerful lesson from Enron for me is the power of self delusion and how people rationalise and deceive themselves. And I think when Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling say they are innocent now, as they do with their trial approaching in early 2006, they mean it on a certain level. One smart financial observer said to me that he's never met the CEO of a fraudulent company who didn't come to believe in what he'd created.


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BETHANY HAMILTON
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BETHANY HAMILTON
Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
BETHANY HAMILTON
Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!
BETHANY HAMILTON
Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude i...
BETHANY HAMILTON
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what littl...
BETHANY HAMILTON
We've always had the offense, it's just defensively we had to turn it up a little bit better. We hel...
BETHANY IRWIN
She wants to do what she has to do. I'm not afraid to throw her the ball if a guard's guarding her d...
BETHANY IRWIN
We were trying to delay it as much as we could. The longer we kept the ball at our end, the less the...
BETHANY IRWIN
Our district tries to give us games later, down the road, because all the other districts are still ...
BETHANY IRWIN
We had to set some screens. We set her a nice one on the baseline. When she came off that screen and...
BETHANY IRWIN
Sara is the kind of artist I could listen to every day for the rest of my life and, honestly, never ...
BETHANY DILLON
I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not goi...
BETHANY DILLON
God's unearthly grace and immeasurable love for us is the heartbeat of this whole record. This is a ...
BETHANY DILLON
After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad,...
BETHANY DILLON
Sara is the kind of artist I could listen to every day for the rest of my life and, honestly, never ...
BETHANY DILLON
The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar to...
BETHANY MOTA
When you're going back to school, you want something fresh and new, and perfume is the best way ...
BETHANY MOTA
I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch ...
BETHANY HAMILTON
I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be th...
BETHANY HAMILTON
It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm goin...
BETHANY HAMILTON
There are so many ways to decorate small spaces. One of my favorite things is throw pillows. They ca...
BETHANY MOTA
And I realized that some things just don't work that way. Life isn't a fairy tail. And the person yo...
BETHANY BROOKBANK
I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb.
BETHANY GRIFFIN
I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and ma...
BETHANY HAMILTON
When you're cutting out fat, spices can add flavor.
BETHANY THAYER
When I have a good pair of shoes, I wear them over and over. Whether it's nice sneakers or a coo...
BETHANY MOTA
Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just...
BETHANY MOTA
This device cuts french fries for you.
BETHANY THAYER
You're Gideon's friend."
I laughed. Gideon's friend, of course. "Only because his mother pays m...
BETHANY FRENETTE
Torture by maths should be a felony.
BETHANY FRENETTE
I glowered back up at him. "Did you need something?"
He didn't move. "Where are you going?"
BETHANY FRENETTE
She [Beall] does really well, sometimes she struggles but she steps in and settles down and really r...
BETHANY BAKER
We hope this is one more resource for businesses to use when figuring out ways to get around constru...
BETHANY ELLER
The main way we want to reach the public will be through radio and television announcements, informa...
BETHANY ELLER
If it meant brighter stars, she would follow God into the darkness.
BETHANY KACZMAREK
Sometimes God pulls us away from normal just long enough to begin something great in us.
BETHANY KACZMAREK
With a Teflon pan, you don't need oil or fat to conduct the heat to the item you're cooking.
BETHANY THAYER
If you want to change the way you eat, you need to change your environment.
BETHANY THAYER
(At the beginning of the year) we didn't really have that mentality. Toward the end of the season, w...
BETHANY ROGERS
Going into the season, no one really knew much about us. We were kind of the wild card. But we showe...
BETHANY ROGERS
Beating (Charlotte) proved to a lot of people that we were a team to be reckoned with.
BETHANY ROGERS
It is so wonderful, the whole idea that these people are taking off their time from work to come and...
BETHANY PARKER
He was a wonderful father. He was always trying to teach her something -- not like school-type lesso...
BETHANY PARKER
Our family is grateful that this killer has been caught, and now we can focus on remembering.
BETHANY PARKER
As I look out into the sea of everyone here, I see my brother. He is my hero. I admire him so much.
BETHANY PARKER
As I look at a sea of faces, I see my brother. Each of you have a story about my brother.
BETHANY PARKER
This is to remind the community (homelessness) is in our town. Our goal is that business owners and ...
BETHANY PALMER
We wanted to do something that involved a lot of people and had a positive effect. It's become somet...
BETHANY PALMER
It started out as a class project and the guidelines of the project were basically to organize group...
BETHANY PALMER