Quotes from 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.

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

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.

For 2015, Duke Energy's employees safety record received the top rank among large utilities as recognize by EEI.

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

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.

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

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

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

There is growing demand for renewable energy.

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

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

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.

Through Duke Energy's strong balance sheet and electric generation expertise, and Piedmont's understanding of natural gas markets and proficient operations, the combined company will be well-positioned for a future that may require additional natural gas infrastructure and services to meet the needs of our customers.

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.'

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.

As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective.

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

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.

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

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 believe that nuclear needs to be a part of the solution if the U.S. really wants to be aggressive about reducing carbon.

Natural gas is an important part of delivering energy, whether you're producing power or other solutions for customers.

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.