Quotes About Reputation

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. Wherever you find the most honest and intelligent merchant or banker, or the best lawyer, the best doctor, the best clergyman, the best shoemaker, carpenter, or anything else, that man is most sought for, and has always enough to do.

A man's best recommendation is that which he gives himself . . . by rendering superior service in the right mental attitude.

No tendré que negar tu historia. Mis seguidores lo harán por mí, lo verás.

there is no hope for the person who is dishonest by choice. Sooner or later, his deeds will catch up with him, and he will pay by loss of reputation, and perhaps even loss of liberty.

LACK OF CAPITAL. This is a common cause of failure among those who start out in business for the first time, without sufficient reserve of capital to absorb the shock of their mistakes, and to carry them over until they have established a REPUTATION.

Remember that your reputation is made by others, but your character is made by you!

it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it. For instance, many wreck their reputations merely by trying to defend them.

somehow it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.

Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.

When you don't have debt you don't care about your reputation in economics circles—and somehow it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one. Just

Sticking up for truth when it is unpopular is far more of a virtue, because it costs you something—your reputation.

You want to avoid being disliked without being envied or admired

One should give more weight to research that, while being rigorous, contradicts other peers, particularly if it entails costs and reputational harm for its author. Further, Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bull***t vendor.*4

perhaps morally broken and socially stigmatized

One should give more weight to research that, while being rigorous, contradicts other peers, particularly if it entails costs and reputational harm for its author. Further, Someone with a high public presence who is controversial and takes risks for his opinion is less likely to be a bull***t vendor.

The optimal solution to being independent and upright while remaining a social animal is: to seek first your own self-respect and, secondarily and conditionally, that of others, provided your external image does not conflict with your own self-respect. Most people get it backwards and seek the admiration of the collective and something called "a good reputation" at the expense of self-worth for, alas, the two are in frequent conflict under modernity.

Recall that Fat Tony was in favor of just "making a buck" as opposed to being "proven right.

Web-shaming is much more powerful than past reputational blots, and more of a tail risk.

few want to jeopardize their jobs and reputation for the sake of change.

When you don't have debt you don't care about your reputation in economics circles—and somehow it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one. Just as in matters of seduction, people lend the most to those who need them the least.

My son, I am very disappointed in you," he said. "I never hear anything wrong said about you. You have proven yourself incapable of generating envy.