Quotes About Reputation

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

I am not worried that nobody knows me. I seek to become fit to be known

Do not worry people not knowing you but strive so that you may worth knowing

According to Mustafa Elhussein, secretary of a center for Muslim intellectuals known as the Ibn Khaldun Society, "There is a great deal of bitterness that such groups have tarnished the reputation of mainstream Muslims" because "self-appointed leaders . . . spew hatred toward America and the West and yet claim to be the legitimate

You don't make waves unless there's a reason, and it better be good. Because once you do, that's it. You're a trouble make, and they never think of you any other way.

It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud.

The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, ". . and speak all the good I know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.

And it might be well to assume and state openly that other people have the virtue you want them to develop. Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one's reputation." So he put himself "as much as I could out of sight" and gave credit for the idea to his friends. This method worked so well that "I ever after practiced it on such occasions." People will eventually give you the credit, he noted, if you don't try to claim it at the time. "The present little sacrifice of your vanity will afterwards be amply repaid.

But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out.

great company must be able to impute its values from the first impression it makes.

In doing so, he learned one of his pragmatic lessons about jealousy and modesty: he found that people were reluctant to support a "proposer of any useful project that might be supposed to raise one's reputation.

And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sometimes uneasily, the pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues, and spiritual values.2

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

I can never be in charge of how other people are going to perceive me, because that's their opinion and they're entitled to it. Again, I can't control that. The only thing I can control is my character, which comes from my thoughts and the love I have inside, not my reputation and what other people think of me.