Quotes About Reputation

They call me The Tinkerman. Wherever I go people say 'Ah ha, there is The Tinkerman.'

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't want to be put in the same category as another athlete that I don't necessarily think is a good role model.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.

I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.

I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have been. I pride myself on being fair.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

The country's image has improved ten-fold during Vajpayee's prime ministership.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.

The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.

When the truth does not get printed, damage is done.

I have done some bad things - things I can't and won't talk about. Nothing that bad, but if that stuff was printed in the papers, they'd paint me as a bad guy. I couldn't be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect. But I really don't want to be Tevin Campbell, Mr. Perfect.

You work for the WNBA. Obviously, they want us to prioritize the WNBA as being No. 1 on our list, but the reality is other people are paying the bills. That's the way it is.

Oh, what am I for the Frenchman or the Italian? A guy who was in prison, a revolutionary, somebody they once read something about in the newspaper - but not me.

There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

I go into the local chemist, and I can hear people saying, 'Oh my Gaaahd - it's Lisa Kudrow!' And there's a famous Amanda Foreman, an actress two years older than me, who appears in 'Private Practice'.