Quotes About Reputation

If you play well, you are praised; if you play badly, you are criticised. Everyone should try to manage it the way they want to.

Usually, when people hear my last name, before they really get to know me or work with me, there's probably a lot of preconceived notions that come with that. And I imagine most of them aren't good. Because for every wonderful second generation of a famous person, there's people that aren't that way. More entitled people.

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

I've covered the league over two decades, I've known Bryan Colangelo for a long, long time. He's not someone who goes on and off the record criticizing his contemporaries or his predecessors.

When audience expect only humorous roles from me, my roles will become cliche and predictable.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

My goal is to get my name known here in the Premier League.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

When you have premium brands, you have to have the right balance of communicating all of your values.

If 'Party of Five' hadn't done well, it would have been a bunch of names involved in the demise. But if 'Time of Your Life' doesn't do well, it will be my name. You have to prepare for the worst. This is a very fickle business.

Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren't prepared to back it up.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

I get mad if I'm not presented as an actual artist on tour. I don't want to be seen as just some DJ that plays between sets. I have a bigger brand than that.

The value of an aware is inextricably linked to the character of the organization presenting it.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

I will never be known as the former President of Zaire.

It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

Any press is good press.

I don't believe in naming clients to get press. I hated it when I was a couture client. If the dresses don't sell themselves, there is something wrong.

Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.