Quotes About Reputation

People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

You'll never get anyone saying something detrimental about Jose - he's an outstanding manager.

I want to be liked; I just haven't lost sleep over it.

You're as good as your last game, and that's how you get over it in any walk of life.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

Image is one of the most important aspects in branding. People identify you and your actions with your name and the product you endorse. The image that you show to fans, followers, consumers, etcetera will affect your marketability and your overall appeal to diverse audiences.

The whole social media can destroy people overnight.

The legacy thing is very overrated.

I think I'm overrated as a recruiter.

I was overwhelmed when people started to know who I was.

He was the kind of man who grew better looking the longer you knew him. Whereas Jesse began to tarnish the moment you took him off the shelf.

This gray little town fifty miles north of Paris acquired an outsized reputation for royal scandal, misbehavior, and debauchery, which in eighteenth-century France was saying something.

Citizen Alexandre Dumas, he was thenceforth known only by the name—strongly compromising at that time, especially among the people who had given it to him—of Mr. Humanity.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

The true character of a person is revealed under pressure.

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

A speaker of truth has no friends

One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

We've learned over the years that having a bad client is worse than having none.

Identity?' said Jack, comfortably pouring out more coffee. 'Is not identity something you are born with?' 'The identity I am thinking of is something that hovers between a man and the rest of the world: a mid-point between his view of himself and theirs of him – for each, of course, affects the other continually.

Think of the firearms makers you wouldn't buy from, based on what you've "heard" about their product.

Naturally wealth had a bad reputation. Two things changed. The first was the rule of law. For most of the world's history, if you did somehow accumulate a fortune, the ruler or his henchmen would find a way to steal it. But in medieval Europe something new happened. A new class of merchants and manufacturers began to collect in towns.10 Together they were able to withstand the local feudal lord.