Quotes About Reputation

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'

They both knew that the Massachusetts rape shield laws prevented defense attorneys from attacking a victim on the issue of consent. But they could attack her on other issues, like sexual history or reputation, which scared some victims off from reporting a rape.

Presently she said: "It's none of my business, Nick, but what do people think of me?" "You're like everybody else: some people like you, some people don't, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.

Dan Robie was someone who could change his opinion of you. Robie well knew that. And when the opinion was altered, the man was unlikely ever to revisit it.

Bad news always travels faster than good.

He earned a national reputation managing large political campaigns, turning them into media-driven extravaganzas with emphasis on sound bites and perception over any kind of substance, and his win rate was astonishingly high. That probably said more for the gullibility of the modern voter than the high standards of the modern candidate, Michelle thought.

I am only the person the greatest number of people think I am. (1999)

Show some courage—be the leader you want to be. Without legacy issues hanging over your head, you'll be able to focus on building up your business to compete better and win, and you'll channel the money you save by resolving issues proactively back into the business. You won't reap all of the financial benefits—your successors will inherit them as well. What you will reap is a legacy; a reputation as a strong, transformational leader.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation: that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. Mine honour is my life; both grow in one: Take honour from me, and my life is done: Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try; In that I live and for that will I die.

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.