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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don’t think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.
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
You can be afraid of a lot of things that you don’t understand.
Rex Tillerson
Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.
Rex Tillerson
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.
Rex Tillerson
Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it is a relatively clean-burning fuel. It has a CO2 footprint, but it has no particulates. It has none of the other emissions elements that are of concern to public health that other forms of power-generation fuels do have: coal, fuel oil, others.
Rex Tillerson
Because we have a society that by and large is illiterate in these areas – science, math and engineering – what we do is a mystery to them, and they find it scary. And because of that, it creates easy opportunities for opponents of development, activist organizations, to manufacture fear.
Rex Tillerson
The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.
Rex Tillerson
None of us live in a zero-risk world.
Rex Tillerson
We go out, we explore, we take risk. And our successes have to pay for all that.
Rex Tillerson
All things come down to your personal relationships.
Rex Tillerson
As a nation, we must unite in recognizing the mounting evidence that the U.S. is falling behind international competitors in producing students ready for 21st-century jobs.
Rex Tillerson
Experience tells us that a good foundation is critical for success in the Arctic and elsewhere. ExxonMobil’s Sakhalin-1 project with Rosneft is an example where we have put this experience to work.
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
If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, ‘Oh, we’re energy poor; we don’t have enough oil; we don’t have enough natural gas.’
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 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.
Rex Tillerson
Oil demand is going to continue to grow as population grows.
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
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.
Rex Tillerson
There are a thousand ways you can be told ‘no’ in this country.
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
I never saw a bureaucracy produce a single barrel of oil.
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
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
We’ve been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.
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
I’m not disputing that increasing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere is going to have an impact. It’ll have a warming impact.
Rex Tillerson
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.
Rex Tillerson
We have spent our entire existence adapting.
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
For many years now, ExxonMobil has held the view that the risks of climate change are serious and do warrant action.
Rex Tillerson
We are grounded in the reality of the day and grounded in the technology of the day. Just saying ‘turn the taps off’ is not acceptable to humanity.
Rex Tillerson
At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.
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
My philosophy is to make money.
Rex Tillerson
The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.
Rex Tillerson
When I was growing up, I was regularly involved in local activities such as food collections, food kitchens, and other initiatives.
Rex Tillerson
Through my career at ExxonMobil, I’ve been actively involved in United Way campaigns.
Rex Tillerson
People go out; they take risk; they find a way to develop resources that were previously not accessible, not available because of technological reasons.
Rex Tillerson
We don’t discount that people’s fears are their fears.
Rex Tillerson
Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.
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
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.
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