Quotes About Reputation

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

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

He always said his reputation is all of himself a man can leave behind when he goes back to the elements. Honesty and honor, he said, courage and grace. Those four are what make a man. That's what he taught me, sire.

Before the interview, even casual observers seemed to have a cautioning word. 'You'd better take a crash helmet,' joked one mate, aware of Smith's colourful reputation – in particular, stubbing a cigarette out on a pesky journalist's forehead.

P&G is known on Wall Street as a firm which takes a long-term view of its brand profitability.

died. She got the reputation of being a witch because of these ointments and potions she makes out of stuff she finds in the woods. To be honest, some of them work better than the medicines you get from the doctor, but everybody's just a little bit afraid of her.

Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.

Do what you will, reputation is at least as fickle as your station in life. Others decide what your reputation is.

don't let "reputation" get mixed up with your moral purpose or your will power; they are important. Make sure "reputation" is in that box in the bottom drawer marked "matters of indifference

If you want to gain any man's good opinion, take particular care how you behave the first time you are in company with him; the light you appear in at first, to one who is neither inclinable to think well nor ill of you, will strongly prejudice him either for or against you.

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

I have millions of likes and follows on all platforms but turned it off as I don't want to be liked because everyone is doing it, I want to be liked or hated by my substance I sow and produce.

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.

Korsakov got himself shot again, eh? Not surprised. the man's hobby is getting shot. He has a positive talent for it.

are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

I'm too young to die." "Yeah, and I'm too well known." -Droma and Han Solo

National honor is national property of the highest value.

The worse the author, the more he is known.

Reputations are made here as in Russia, on political respectability, or by commercial acceptability. The worse the author, the more he is known.

If a public figure is willing to accept things as they are, he will avoid being loved or hated very much, and he will die in his bed of old age--if he hasn't had the decency to put an earlier end to his life by committing suicide.