Rex Tillerson Quotes

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

This part of the 21st century is preoccupied with risk, and there's a lot that law can do to make lives longer and healthier.

There is a risk between toxicity and hazard. Just because it is a risk doesn't mean you are in danger.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

No risk that is preventable is acceptable.

Report makes dangers greater then they be.

Public health authorities exaggerate health risks for the same reason that sharks eat seals—because that’s just what they do.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough.

It's a dangerous thing to build pipelines underground.

When you read that UBS did not even view parts of its mortgage portfolio as having market risk, it becomes very obvious that a number of firms were not dotting the i's and crossing the t's when it comes to risk management.

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

When we see a strong correlation, and the matter at-hand is something with major health or safety or security implications, then we are behooved to at least begin taking preliminary precautions in case the correlation proves to be causative.

Safety is top priority for us, and all our drivers are fully certified; all of them are checked. Their addresses are checked. Backgrounds are checked. To whatever extent the Indian system makes it possible to check.

It is important for me to personally visit Superfund sites to assess the progress being made.

We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.

Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.