Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" When you're in a crisis, there's really no playbook. "

" On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment! "

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

" There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear. "

" What we are investing in, from a generation standpoint, are renewables and natural gas. "

" I respect passionate views. "

" We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions for all of our ash basins. "

" More than 40 percent of the electricity we generated in the Carolinas in 2015 was from carbon-free sources. "

" It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally. "

" 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. "

" M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company. "

" I will work to ensure Duke Energy is positioned to continue its track record of outstanding customer service and operational and financial excellence. "

" There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.' "

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

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

" Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you. "

" Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay. "

" As we continue to move to a lower-carbon future, we will also continue to work constructively with states to identify customer solutions that preserve the reliability and affordability that our communities expect. "

" When you are in a situation or a crisis, you need to define, what is the unique role that I can play? "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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