78 Quotes by Rex Tillerson

We need companies that have the scale to compete.

Simply put, it works. The Exxon Mobil culture is something that a lot of people would like to understand better. I'm not really going to help them understand it, because it's the source of our competitive advantage.

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.

I don't think people should look for much to be different. It's a culture that started many, many years ago. It's a culture familiar to me since I joined the company, now almost 32 years ago.

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.

Our industry remains massive and very much a long-term, capital-intensive business.

We invest our shareholders' money wisely, in projects that remain attractive over the long term.

We need U.S. energy companies that have the scale and financial strength to make investments, undertake the risk and develop the new technologies.

We are patient, and we are not opportunity constrained.