Quotes About Reputation

You know you have a drinking problem when the bartender knows your name -- and you've never been to that bar before.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

You can't get unfamous. You can get infamous but you can't get unfamous.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

Well, honor is the subject of my story.

He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

What's your name?""Emma Gould, " she said. "What's yours?""Wanted.""By all the girls or just the law?

I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

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.

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.