Rex Tillerson Quotes

Rex Tillerson

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 23, 1952

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.

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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.

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Through my career at ExxonMobil, I've been actively involved in United Way campaigns.

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

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People go out; they take risk; they find a way to develop resources that were previously not accessible, not available because of technological reasons.

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

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Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.

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We believe addressing the risk of climate change is a global issue.

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We have for many years included a price of carbon in our outlook. We put it in as a cost. Everything gets tested against it.

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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.

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We recognize that greenhouse gas emissions are one of the factors affecting climate change.

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There is still significant uncertainty around all of the factors that affect climate change.

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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.

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The Common Core State Standards are based on the best international research. They are built on the standards used by the most effective education systems around the world, including Singapore, Finland, Canada and the U.K.

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