Quotes About Reputation

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.

No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

I like to do really good things. But 'good' - witness Charles Dickens - doesn't mean 'not popular.'

It's very embarrassing to talk of your own work before shooting for it and even before it is released. I have been a witness to many of our actors turning red-faced after their films release. I'd rather not be there.

I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

I woke up and I just saw all these things, like 'RIP Skai Jackson,' and I'm like, 'Why do people think I'm dead? Like, what happened? Where did this come from?' And then one of my fans told me it was some girl who started it. And for me, that's just like not funny at all.

Crying wolf is a real danger.

People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?

I looked at Robert Downey, Jr. and all these people - when you ask for redemption, people will give it to you. But if you're the boy who cried wolf, they'll destroy you.

The best thing I can say about 'Teen Wolf Too' is that it's the only time anyone ever referred to me as Preston Sturges. Leonard Maltin wrote that 'Teen Wolf Too' made 'Teen Wolf' look like Preston Sturges. I've always prided myself on that.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world.

I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.