Quotes About Reputation

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

Success is not measured by who you are, only by the perception of what others think you are

The market doesn´t care about titles.

When you slander someone [talk negatively about people], you earn a debit in your account and that person will earn a credit. Who would do these kinds of business?

When you become too predictable you lose your brand's luster.

When you are on top of your game you don't have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.

Always do what is right with the customer. What you sow now, you will harvest later.

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

Two books under my belt, some controversial journalism, a reputation for contentious provocative attention-seizing writing. I had something of a name. If feminism had been around then I'd have taken it up, I suppose; it would have needed me. As it was, I never felt its absence; being a woman seemed to me a valuable extra asset.

Want to kill a company quickly? Decide you are better than your customers.

He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.

In the world of the spirits your name is famous.

None of the other famous phallocrats of Updike's generation—not Mailer, not Exley or Roth or even Bukowski—excites such violent dislike.

Status, prestige, authority, degree, licence, credential, badge of office, reputation, manners — all of these marks of social approval mean nothing to the NTs when the issue is the utility of goal-directed action.

I always wondered what it would be like to see this city as a tourist. I have to believe that NY always lives up to its reputation. The buildings really are that tall, the lights really are that bright, there's truly a story on every corner. But it still might be a shock to realize you're just one story walking among millions. To not feel the bright lights even as they fill the air. To see the tall buildings and only feel a deep longing for the stars.

The cuckold acquires a reputation as easily exploitable once it becomes known that he has been exploited. Women assume that he lacks the ability to prevent other men from encroaching. Perceptions of his desirability on the mating market plummet. All these factors add up to formidable fitness costs of being cuckolded.

You know who I am. --- I know your reputation. --- Then you know I am a dangerous man. --- I know you were said to be such once.

You know who I am. --- I know your reputation. --- Then you know I am a dangerous man. --- I know you were said to be such once. --- So you know that I am shunned by man and God alike. --- Be thankful then that I am neither.

He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.

People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth . . . for his furniture; we remember Pierre Léotard, despite his being the greatest trapeze artist ever, for his leotard. The idea is to give your name to something, like the zeppelin, the newton, Morse code, the chicuelina .

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.