Quotes About Reputation

At some point, if you live long enough, it's probably impossible to avoid seeming crazy.

Part of the presidential job description is the absorption of public vitriol.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't.

I know, I know, in that totally archetypal Tom Sawyer scenario it's supposed to be way satisfying to attend your own funeral and witness how everyone secretly loved and adored you, but the sad truth is that most people are just as fakey-fake to you after you're dead as when you're alive.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

fame can be thought of as having four elements: a person, an accomplishment, their immediate publicity, and what posterity makes of them.

One theme common to all of these failures, however, is that the decisions that led to failure were made when the leaders in question were widely regarded as among the best companies in the world.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. —Will Rogers

He wouldn't be remembered well.

What are you trying to prove? Do you think if you kill enough people in the worst ways imaginable they'll give you a name like the Madman, or the Butcher? It doesn't matter how many abhorrent tortures you devise. You'll always be the Pinhead.

Precisely this one, which I had intended to be published anonymously so that it could never build any reputation on the part of the author, did become a success.... Don't aim at success - the more you aim and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued, it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

It's an invasion a-and I resent It.' 'A strange remark from a woman,' there was a caustic sting in his voice. 'It is my experience that your sex likes this invasion, as you call it. It is a subtle intrusion they can allow without risking their reputations.

And if someone should see, what matter they?

the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of man)

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

Given the high potential for free riding, an offering's reputation must be earned on day one, because brand building increasingly relies heavily on word-of-mouth recommendations spreading rapidly through our networked society.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

In show biz you are where you live. Real estate is the key to who has been signed, dumped, divorced, defrocked, deflowered, disbarred, arrested, disgraced, married and multiplied.

The best advertisement you can have is a happy customer with a big mouth. The worst advertisement you can have is an unhappy customer with a big mouth.

The law says they aren't allowed to share the info with anyone else, but of course they did—who wouldn't?—so now we're marked for life. His picture is even posted on the New Jersey Sex Offender Internet Registry.

We don't know he's a shyster." "His name's Monte Carlo and he's from New Jersey. What else do we need to know?

You simply lose credibility when you act the way those who seek to harm you act.

On the strength of his reputation as a soldier, nobleman