It is a very aggressive culture.

At Enron,

no one was more aggressive than the traders.

If I'm on the way to my boss's office

talking about my compensation.

And if I step on somebody's throat on the way

that doubles it?

Well, I'll stomp on the guy's throat.

You know, that that's how people were.

On the trading side we got to be the biggest,

baddest house in town.

And by necessity,

if you wanted to be in the market,

you had to deal with Enron.

Enron's traders were like the super powerful high school

clique that even the principal doesn't dare to reign in.

They had become the major engine of

at least reported profits at the company.

They took Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay's belief in free markets

and turned it into an ideology.