Quotes About Reputation

Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

Don't hide things from the fans, because they will find them, and they will not be your fan anymore. I've seen that happen with many artists.

I took pride in knowing, 'Hey, my numbers may be down, but football guys know I'm playing at a high level.'

In any field, people want to work with those who they know and trust. It's the same in the Hindi film industry.

Libel settles nothing.

As a magistrate his methods were simple. Even for the vastest bribe he would never sell the decision of a case, because he knew that a magistrate who gives wrong judgments is caught sooner or later. His practice, a much safer one, was to take bribes from both sides and then decide the case on strictly legal grounds. This won him a useful reputation for impartiality.

Prestige, the breath of life, is itself nebulous.

Rudyard Kipling was the only popular writer of this century who was not at the same time a thoroughly bad writer.

It is always so with titled people, they are either adored or hated.

I define word of mouth as "the exchange of information about a product or service among people who are independent of the producer".

Many studies have shown that a satisfied customer is likely to tell approximately three people about a product, whereas a dissatisfied customer is likely to tell approximately eleven people. This is often because the positive experiences are expected and soon forgotten, but the unresolved negatives get people angry and frustrated, provoking word of mouth.

56.Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad Company.

Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any.

Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set me against her from the outset, but you over-reached yourself today, my girl! How dared you write in such terms to me! How could you have been so crassly stupid as to suppose that Sophy could ever need your countenance to set her right in the eyes of the world, or that I would believe one word of slander against her?

Oh, Philippe, thou are a rogue. So I have been told. Presumably because I am innocent of the slightest indiscretion. Curious. No one dubs you rogue who so fully merit the title. But I, whose reputation is spotless, am necessarily a wicked one and a deceiver. I shall write a sonnet on the subject. Ah, no! begged Saint-Dantin in alarm. Your sonnets are vile, Philippe! So let us have no more verse from you, I pray!

My sister, Mr Calverleigh, was not aware, until I enlightened her, that you are not, as she had supposed, a man of character, but one of – of an unsavoury reputation!' she snapped. 'Well, what an unhandsome thing to have done!' he said reproachfully. 'Doesn't she like me any more?

Have you considered what people would be bound to say?' Frederick said. 'No, nor do I propose to burden my head with anything that interests me so little!' retorted Mr Beaumaris.

Who are you? Or should I first present myself to you? I'm Damerel, you know.' 'Yes, so I supposed, at the outset of our delightful acquaintance. Later, of course, I was sure of it.' 'Oh, oh – ! My reputation, Iago, my reputation!' he exclaimed, laughing again.

Reflect that you could have written the book so much better yourself, if only you had the time and the inclination for the task; and that the literate won't be listening, if you're speaking on air, or doing more than glance at your review, if it appears in print; and go right ahead! There will be no reprisals. If the author is young and struggling, he won't dare to expose your pretensions; and if he is well established he won't think it worth while to do so.

Then you,' said Sophy, 'are Lord Charlbury!' He bowed. 'I am, and I perceive that my fame has gone before me. I own, I should not have chosen to figure in your mind as the man with mumps, but so, I see, it is!

Lady Mablethorpe shuddered. 'Is she dreadful?' 'She is an impudent strumpet!' said Mr. Ravenscar coldly.

Just because I cut a lark with that stiff-rumped Exciseman you seem to think I'm as good as rope-ripe!

Lord Damerel said that he knew well that it would be *infamous* to take advantage of you, when you knew nothing about the world and had never been beyond Yorkshire, or met any other men - well, only Mr Yardley! - so that you were almost *bound* to have fallen in love with him, and how *could* you understand what it would mean to be married to a man of his reputation?

It's a lot harder for an author that's unpublished to say, 'Hey, here's a new book.' There's nothing of theirs to read, so you don't know what it's going to be like. Kickstarter is great, but you also have to put your work out there whenever you can so you can build a reputation.