Quotes About Reputation

If they didn't call you a tough guy, then what else would they call you? Something worse than that? I'm playing parts, and if they call you that, it's because I played the part right.

While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

Being falsely accused of racism is, at best, unpleasant and at worst, can destroy a career.

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.

Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your brand.

This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.

The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.

To leave a job with a bad result is, I think, the worst thing in life to do. They will always remember you as a loser.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.

Go ask Tom Brady if I ever cheated when I sacked him. I'm not a cheater. That's not on my record, that's not on my resume.

I've been just trying to master that same edge that a Tom Brady or Drew Brees has; when he steps into a building, you know he's there.

Tom Hanks comes with a lot of credibility.

Whether it's Tom Hanks or whether it's the character of Robert Langdon himself, both loom as large.

Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.