Quotes About Reputation

As for all the little people who call themselves Marquis de Cambremerde or de Gotoblazes, there is no difference between them and the humblest rookie in your regiment. Whether you go and do wee-wee at the Countess Cack's or cack at the Baroness Wee-wee's, it's exactly the same, you will have compromised your reputation and have used a shitty rag instead of toilet paper. Which is unsavoury.

know, that so far to distrust' the judgement and the honesty of one who hath but a common repute in Learning and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner lest he should drop a schism or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.

Good offense consists of developing business, trying cases with success, and building a good reputation within the trial community. Playing good defense means running the law firm like a business, being conservative in your spending, and worrying about tomorrow much more than about today.

You know humans have a bad reputation. Among the rest of us. "I've heard," Wilson said. That you're deceptive. That you'll go against your contracts and treaties. That you're terrified of all of us and your way of solving that problem is trying to destroy us all. "But on the bright side, we all have lovely singing voices," Wilson said.

under oath he revealed the course was designed by taking holes from the courses he found on a PlayStation-era Tiger Woods video game. This resulted in Loudoun County being sued by Pebble Beach, Cog Hill and St. Andrews, not only for stealing from their courses, but for doing it so poorly that it damaged the original courses' reputations.

Really rich folks do a lot of reputational transactions. ... Rich people show their appreciation through favors, I said. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quids pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you're that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor.

I had a feeling that as long as I didn't admit to murdering adorable kittens in front of children, I was going to get the gig.

Can no one imagine an incompetent Legend?

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.

Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

Ethics and Attitude Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are. Character is more important.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.

As so often is the case, the public hero that others admire can leave quite a trail of private hurt in his wake.

Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.