Quotes About Reputation

We feel we're the only British group worth exporting since the Sex Pistols, definitely.

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

Twenty-nine years on Wall Street, and an Italian last name, not one trading violation... they can't find anything. Because I would never dishonor my dad by hurting my last name by doing something stupid for money or for power.

Vince McMahon can end up in a federal lawsuit with you where there is mudslinging back and forth that makes the front page of 'The Wall Street Journal,' and if tomorrow he figures out a way where the company can benefit from your involvement, you will be at a negotiating table with him at lunch.

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

The people who work in Wall Street still look up to Gordon Gekko. He's sort of a guru.

Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

Wall Street, like every industry, has good and bad players.

You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don't wanna tell people, 'I never really listened to Waylon.'

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

Everyone kinda knows me as David and Victoria Beckham's son, and it doesn't, like, annoy me; I just kinda wanna make my own name for myself.

Nobody wants to be nameless. Nobody wanna be forgotten.

It's changed big-time 'cause now I wanna go out, have fun with my friends, but I gotta also take in that I'm playing at the MLS level and I have to represent the club. I can't go out and fool around, cause trouble anymore.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.

By the way, you won't put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you?

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again.