Quotes About Reputation

I have often said that there was no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented in the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

For all their reputation for chattiness and storytelling, the Irish I knew were so skillful with words there was sometimes no need for them at all.

Generally speaking, rapport-building has a far better reputation than it deserves. It is perceived as admirable when in fact it is almost always done for self-serving reasons.

When a bridge fails, the engineer who designed it is as good as dead.

Are you famous in India?" Allyson asks. "I am Brad Pitt in India" Willem says.

which, is a great thing—mostly. "Ah, fame,

Developer relations is being able to say, "I was able to walk into a conference room and everybody recognized my brand, and everybody knew who I was already - Tracy Lee

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.

WILLIAM THE EVER RANDY, as the shitheads here had started calling him

Scientists have no more status than what other scientists award them through citations, talk invitations, and tenure. "Status" makes a misleadingly concrete-sounding

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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 reputations. 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. John

We're a family business. All we have is our name and our reputation. We follow only three rules. First, once bought, we stay loyal to the client. Second, we try not to do anything illegal. And third, at the end of the day we have to be able to look our reflection in the eye.

The serving girl—plump, round and rosy-cheeked—moved quickly between the tables. The soldiers smiled at her. She felt torn between the desire to smile back at them, because they were young, and the fear of getting a bad reputation, because they were the enemy—so she frowned and tightly pursed her lips, without, however, quite managing to erase the two dimples on her cheeks which showed her secret pleasure.

Anything can be tarnished by association, and if you have enough associations you can blacken the world.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Desde entonces la gente lo recuerda como Juan del Pedo.