Quotes About Reputation

Frightened, I ran into the study to tell him and asked, "Are you going to call Dr. Schloss?"5 By which he deduced that I had eaten the pennies to get attention. I hadn't, but that's what having a reputation means. It's like getting a carved owl for your birthday and politely saying how much you like it; soon, everyone thinks that's what you want and you're overrun with owls.

He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.

Finally, there is every indication that Putin's government worked neither to prevent terrorist attacks nor to resolve crises peacefully when they occurred; moreover, the president consistently and increasingly staked his reputation not only on his own determination to "rub them out" whatever the circumstances but also on the terrorists' perceived ruthlessness.

Russia finally lost its bona fides in the eyes of international business and media.

a person who is free to make a $20,000 purchase of a car as a customer, might not be free to buy an office chair for $500 as an employee. Little wonder that big companies grow more slowly than small ones (firms whose chief executives attend the annual World Economic Forum schmooze-fest in Davos tend to underperform the stock market), and big public bodies have worse reputations than small ones.

The success of trust-based peer organizations such as eBay, Wikipedia, and the open-source movement, indicates that trust is a highly expandable network property.

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. That is the paradox this book has tried to explain. Human beings have social instincts. They come into the world equipped with predispositions to learn how to cooperate, to discriminate the trustworthy from the treacherous, to commit themselves to be trustworthy, to earn good reputations, to exchange goods and information, and to divide labour.

Catholicism has had some branding issues these last few decades

People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.

Ellingham was in the mountains of Vermont. Its story was the stuff of legend, its reputation gold-plated, its illustrious graduates legion. Its story was long but can best be summarized thusly:

Sayg? duymad???n?z insanlardan gelen övgü ve hayranl???n ne önemi var?

Once you became president, people's perceptions of you—even the perceptions of those who knew you best—were inevitably shaped by the media.

But most of all they only say you were caught, that you wanted to be King, that it must be so.

Lose money for the firm and I will be understanding; lose a shred of reputation for the firm and I will be ruthless. —WARREN BUFFETT

If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy that these possessions may be lost or stolen or devalued.

One of the most important commitments in a family or a business is never to bad-mouth. Always be loyal to those who are absent, if you want to retain those who are present

what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. We all know it. There are people we trust absolutely because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have the human relations techniques or not, we trust them, and we work successfully with them.

You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. Rumi

Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good. None of us want to look stupid, or at least overmatched, by admitting we don't know an answer.

Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good.

Shaw reportedly said. "I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Every time we pretend to know something, we are doing the same: protecting our own reputation rather than promoting the collective good. None of us want to look stupid, or at least overmatched, by admitting we don't know an answer. The incentives to fake it are simply too strong.

When gentlemen agreed to a duel, they were fighting not for money or land or even women but for honor, the strange commodity that exists because everyone believes that everyone else believes that it exists.