Bryce, Robert. 2002. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, Jealousy and the Death of Enron with What Went Wrong at Enron Today (PublicAffairs). 222: "Skilling was able to convince a nearly constant parade of reporters that Enron's trading business was invincible. Other companies were going to explode as Enron figured out how to buy and sell every part of an individual company's traditional business. Enron was going to intermediate everything, commoditize everything. Just as Ford Motor Company didn't have to own the steel mill to build cars, Enron was going to speed the breakup of business in the world into its individual parts. "We believe that markets are the best way to order or organize an industrial enterprise, " Skilling told the Financial Times in June 2000. "You are going to see the deintegration (sic) of the business systems we have all grown up with." Durgin and Skinner, "Inside Track: The Guru of Decentralisation."
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