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" Building new nuclear is something that is going to take a lot of commitment, not only from our company but from the communities we serve. It is a five-to-seven-year journey to build one, and they are expensive. "

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" Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate, and lead people toward an outcome they can't see. "

Lynn Good

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See

" I become the face of the company, and that's a responsibility. "

" 2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company. "

" I think we'll still be operating coal in 2030. Whether we will be in 2040, I think, is a question, or in 2050. "

" As we look ahead, we see increasing opportunities for Duke in natural gas - not just for producing electricity, but in providing gas for our customers. We have been investing in renewables as well throughout the U.S. "

" We should be building more nuclear today. "

Lynn Good

Building

Today

" I find, at times, people underestimate me. That's really an asset. "

" If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours. "

" I can be incredibly focused, and I can appear impatient. So I've learned to slow down, get to know people, and provide more context. There's nothing wrong with getting to the point pretty quickly, but it's also helpful to give people an opportunity to talk about their work. "

" Leadership is a journey - you never arrive. "

" I get energized around a plan - what's it going to be like in three months? Six months? You're not going to let it defeat you. You got to keep going. "

" I'll be the first one to tell you I burn coal... That fossil generation and the nuclear generation, frankly, is necessary in order for me to provide power. "

" I think about trust and confidence as something that you earn every day, and we will keep at it, earning it every day. "

" There weren't many women ahead of me. "

" I don't believe you can absolutely have it all. "

" People who love what they do get after it every day. "

" I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward. "

" Our highest priorities are safe operations and the well-being of the people and communities we serve. "

" Our customers are at the center of everything we do. "

" All options to produce, transmit, and store electricity should be considered, driven by clear price signals and constructive government policy. "

" If I were to share with you the number of attacks that come into the Duke network every day, you would be astounded. And it's not from people working out of their garage; it's from nation-states that are trying to penetrate systems. "

" It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas. "

" Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation. "

" Reliable and competitively priced electricity is fundamental to growing our economy and creating jobs. Our customers expect nothing less. "

" You're well-spoken, or you're very analytical, or you're a great team-builder, or you're great with relationships... Playing to your strengths is always something good to build on because you're trying to develop a foundation to keep growing, as a professional and as a leader. "

" Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic. "

" My father was a World War II Marine who became a high school principal. He always had a heart for students who maybe were underprivileged or had difficulty of some sort. "

" Over the long term, we should develop and implement new technologies to capture and store coal's carbon emissions. We also must make our electric grid more resilient. "

Lynn Good

Over

Coal

" When I was growing up, we had a widow living next door to us. So the habit was that if we went to the grocery store, we called her first. If we cut our yard, we cut her yard, no questions asked. "

" The way we grow is, we make investments. We've been building a natural-gas platform within Duke that started with the pipelines. "