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" I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wanted to work there because it looked like the hardest thing I could find, and I loved being on a steep learning curve. I progressed quickly, and two years out of college, I was managing a small team of people. "

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" 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. "

Lynn Good

Generation

Love

Heritage

" 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. "

" You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution. "

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

" Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear plants. "

" An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of the earnings I produce. The business that goes with that level of dividend is a business that has more predictability, more stability. "

Lynn Good

Level

Energy

" Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude. "

" The enthusiasm around carbon capture and sequestration was probably greater before the shale-gas discovery and the low prices were so prevalent. "

" The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're going to have very bad days. But It's rare that things are as good as they look, and it's rare that things are as bad as they seem.' So having perspective, and challenging perspective, is important to making good decisions. "

Lynn Good

Decisions

Look

" We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event. "

" If you keep an open mind, you can learn so much from the people around you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the situation, anger or other things, disarm the situation in some way, and you can use different techniques to do that. "

Lynn Good

Feel

Anger

" At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room. "

" 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

" I don't see any new coal. "

" I am honored to be named chairman of Duke Energy's board and privileged to lead our company forward for our customers, employees, and shareholders. "

" If we just isolate distributed solar all by itself, it does not work without the utility around it. And so the utility needs to be paid for the services it provides. "

" Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and we've had the benefit of very low gas prices for our customers as a result of that. "

" If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits deteriorate in a way that makes us less attractive to investors. "

Lynn Good

Need

Position

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