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Lynn Good Quotes

There weren’t many women ahead of me.

– Lynn Good

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.

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

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.

– Lynn Good

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

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

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

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

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.

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

I don’t believe you can absolutely have it all.

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

I am deeply honored by the trust the board has placed in me to lead Duke Energy. I have a high degree of confidence in the strength of our company’s leadership and dedicated employees.

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

You were in the midst of a chaotic, unfair, didn’t-know-how-it-was-going-to-end story, and the only thing you could do was… keep moving.

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

I hope nuclear becomes a part of the conversation, at the right time when we recognize the importance of that resource. I hope we can work that out as a country and figure out how we are going to put nuclear in the mix.

– Lynn Good

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.

– Lynn Good

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.

– Lynn Good

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.

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

You move an organization when they understand where you want them to go.

– Lynn Good

I had never seen a computer when I went to college.

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

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

– Lynn Good

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