Rex Tillerson Quotes

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

It is always thrilling to attempt something new and it feels great when your efforts are awarded positively.

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

I'm not afraid to take chances or go off on my own.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.

To be successful, one must take chances.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!