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Quotes About Reputation

The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.
~ bujold lois mcmaster ii
I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.
~ bukowski charles ii
been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity — was rediscovered in the 20th century as a literary masterpiece. Source: Wikipedia
~ Herman Melville
Mirst?giem ?aud?m virs zemes maz dienu ir dz?v?bai lemtu. Ja k?dam ir cietsird?gs raksturs un cietsird?gs ir bijis pret citiem, Visi tam nov?l tik ?aunu, kam?r tas dz?vo virs zemes, Bet, ja kam krietna ir sirds, ja ar? t? domas ir krietnas, Teicamo slavu pa pasauli plašo starp mirst?giem ?aud?m Svešinieki aiznes un visi to d?v? par cildenu v?ru.
~ Homer
They that shun dishonour more often live than get killed, but they that fly save neither life nor name.
~ Homer
Human beings have short lives.330 If we are cruel, everyone will curse us during our life, and mock us when we die. The names of those who act with nobleness are brought by travelers across the world, and many people speak about their goodness.
~ Homer
For nothing is better than this more steadfast than when two people, a man and his wife, keep a harmonious household; a thing that brings much distress to the people who hate them and pleasure to their will-wishers, and for them the best reputation.
~ Homer
Donald Trump will not be president forever, but the media's reputation, badly scarred during these polarizing years, might never recover.
~ Howard Kurtz
Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.
~ Howard Zinn
For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
~ Iain Pears
Atât timp cât un num?r suficient de oameni cred c? e autentic, chiar e.
~ Iain Pears
The social credit system is a tool the state can use to decide whether it can trust you. If it trusts you, your horizons are limitless. If the state cannot trust you, you're not going anywhere.
~ Ian Bremmer
It's a matter of dishonour, and when it gets out, which it's bound to, this will be the one act you'll be remembered for. Everything else you achieved will be irrelevant. Your reputation will rest only on this, because ultimately reality is social, it's among others that we have to live and their judgements matter.
~ Ian Mcewan
These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in which reputations are edgily tended and a man can be brought low by status anxiety. Poets, or at least this poet, are as earthbound as the rest.
~ Ian Mcewan
Your reputation will rest only on this, because ultimately reality is social, it's among others that we have to live and their judgments matter.
~ Ian Mcewan
One could go on, but with diminishing returns. MacArthur was a serial confabulator
~ Ian W. Toll
DOES EVERYBODY THINK I am an asshole?" Curran asked. "Only people who know you or have met you.
~ Ilona Andrews
I believe I've met your grandfather, the Bloody Butcher of Odar. That's correct. I remember now. A delightful man, wonderfully dry sense of humor. Arland blinked. My grandfather has been called many names in his lifetime. Delightful was not one of them. He remembers you also. You tried to poison him. Caldenia waved her fingers. I've tried to poison everyone at one time or another. Don't take it personally.
~ Ilona Andrews
People lie for many reasons: to save themselves, to get out of trouble, to avoid hurting someone's feelings. Manipulators lie to get what they want. Narcissists lie to make themselves seem grand to others and themselves. Recovering alcoholics lie to safeguard their tattered reputation. And those who love us most lie to us most of all, because life is a bumpy ride and they want to smooth it out as much as possible.
~ Ilona Andrews
Yes, I met with Arsene Wenger, who is a great coach. He has a great reputation here in France, he's well-respected and knows how to develop young players.
~ Kylian Mbappe
I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.
~ Antonio Davis
I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
~ Donald Trump
I've had two lives. The golfing part... the younger generation sort of heard about me but maybe didn't realize I wasn't too bad at times. Then the announcing part.
~ Johnny Miller
One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.
~ Yingluck Shinawatra