Words matter. These are the best Rex Tillerson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.
Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.
We don’t discount that people’s fears are their fears.
When I was growing up, I was regularly involved in local activities such as food collections, food kitchens, and other initiatives.
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.
We’re all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I have my style.
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.
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.
You know, oil prices from 2007, on the strength of a very robust global economy and a very robust emerging China, many of you will recall, ramped up to near $150 a barrel. Then we had the financial – U.S. financial collapse. Oil prices collapsed all the way down to $40 a barrel.
The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.
There is still significant uncertainty around all of the factors that affect climate change.
I’m not disputing that increasing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere is going to have an impact. It’ll have a warming impact.
Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don’t have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you’ll do the right thing every time.
Throughout my life and career, I have continually been impressed with the importance of integrity – whether it was growing up as a Boy Scout, working in one of my first jobs as a university janitor, or being a leader in a Fortune 500 company.
Flue gas extraction is really, really hard to do. It’s not that we can’t do it – just not at a cost that anyone will bear.
I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.
It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.
You can be afraid of a lot of things that you don’t understand.
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.
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.
None of us live in a zero-risk world.
We have spent our entire existence adapting.
My philosophy is to make money.
The size of the resource prize has to be large to support the risked capital that has to be put in place. The Arctic is one of the few places left where we believe those opportunities exist.
You’d save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don’t have it.
The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.
We’re only going to invest our shareholders’ money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.
We’ve been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.
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.
At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.
Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.
There are a thousand ways you can be told ‘no’ in this country.
We’ve recognized that natural gas would be the fastest-growing of the conventional fuels: oil, natural gas, coal. And so, we see the important role that natural gas will play globally and, more importantly, the important role it will play in the U.S. in terms of meeting future energy demand.
