Reputation Quotes

In daily practice, the word brand stands as a surrogate for the word reputation. In fact, your brand acts just like a person. When you know a person's reputation, you can predict his or her behavior. You know what that person is likely to do or say-or not do or say-in any given situation. Your brand works the same way.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.

You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away.

Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

Purpose should determine approach.  At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we are subject to others - our wealth, our position, our reputation, and our life - and to set a high value on those things which no man can take from us - our integrity, our righteousness, our love for all men, and our communion with God.

Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

A lot of people don't trust the pitch. There's this kind of reputation it has for being untrustworthy and fickle and capricious and everything else, and those are words that big league managers and general managers and organizations aren't too fond of.

I want my reputation to be judged on how I tackle the problem of ice if I'm elected as the member for Canning.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.

Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.

Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.

Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.

The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.

The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. In this case, the 'liberal media' didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.