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Rex Tillerson Quotes

The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.

– Rex Tillerson

We don’t discount that people’s fears are their fears.

– Rex Tillerson

In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it’s crummy water. It’s real salty. It’s got heavy metals in it. It’s got bad stuff in it.

– Rex Tillerson

By the year 2040, the world’s population is likely to increase by about 2 billion people, with also projected economic output will be up about 130 percent versus the year 2010.

– Rex Tillerson

Valdez was a devastating experience for our corporation. What emerged from that was a commitment to develop a systematic approach to managing risk in advance.

– Rex Tillerson

We’ve been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.

– Rex Tillerson

You’d be surprised how many times I’ve had to have that conversation with heads of state who want to say to me, ‘Well, look, I know you can have some influence on the president. I need you to go back and tell him this.’

– Rex Tillerson

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

– Rex Tillerson

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that’s not animal dung.

– Rex Tillerson

The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

– Rex Tillerson

I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.

– Rex Tillerson

We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.

– Rex Tillerson

At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.

– Rex Tillerson

Gasoline prices are a direct reflection of the cost of the raw materials to produce the gasoline, no different than any other product that you would buy, whether it’s a good or some other consumable, or it’s a luxury item. It’s all a function of what do the raw materials cost.

– Rex Tillerson

The consequences of a misstep in a well, while large to the immediate people that live around that well, in the great scheme of things are pretty small, and even to the immediate people around the well, they could be mitigated.

– Rex Tillerson

In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies – in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy.

– Rex Tillerson

Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.

– Rex Tillerson

The disciplined approach to pursuing and selecting the most attractive investment opportunities continues to distinguish ExxonMobil. We are long-term driven, and we’re patient. And we’re not opportunity-constrained.

– Rex Tillerson

You’d save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don’t have it.

– Rex Tillerson

All things come down to your personal relationships.

– Rex Tillerson

We’re all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I have my style.

– Rex Tillerson

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption.

– Rex Tillerson

We have been blessed in many respects with the explosion of the development of shale gas resources here in North America. It’s both U.S. and in Canada.

– Rex Tillerson

Volunteering is a way to quickly become part of your new community, make connections, and start to feel at home. That doesn’t just benefit the individual. It benefits the company, too.

– Rex Tillerson

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source.

– Rex Tillerson

Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around – we’ll adapt to that. It’s an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.

– Rex Tillerson

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

– Rex Tillerson

In any country when you’re going to make significant commitments, you have to look the head of state of that country eyeball to eyeball and say to them, ‘I’m going to make this commitment, and I’m counting on you and your commitments.’

– Rex Tillerson

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

– Rex Tillerson

There are a thousand ways you can be told ‘no’ in this country.

– Rex Tillerson

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