Quotes About Reputation

Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

Benzino has a long, credible history as a rapper and as a producer.

Everybody knows rappers don't do all they say they do.

Luckily, I've had a very good working rapport will all my co-stars. Nobody has complained about me. No one's ever said they don't want to work with me.

It's bigger than the music. You have to have a personality, you have to have a character you have to have a good rapport with people. Those are things that also give you longevity.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.'

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

I'd rather be respected than loved.

My main problem with Norwegian Black Metal is that almost all the bands from 1992-1993 are made up of rats, who ratted each other out and blamed me for everything that went wrong in the scene. I really don't want to be associated with them in any way.

I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

What I learned: if you've done something you think the public is going to react badly to, you can't delay it, hide from it, or ignore it. You have to address it head on and take your beating. Always take your beating.

Any business, no matter what it is, lives or dies by the customer reaction it creates.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an author, your name almost becomes a brand; readers know what to expect.

I make a point of not reading reviews because of the old adage, if you read the good ones then you have to read the bad ones, and if you read the bad ones, you have to, you know... And also because it's a very, very bewildering and exposing thing.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

Obviously, beating Alvarez was the first step to getting my name out there. Now people now know who I am and see, at least in some part, that I'm the real deal.