Reputation Quotes

Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.

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

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

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.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

Alan Smith... very much a striker, by reputation... and by fact

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Sting's legacy was built on Ric Flair's reputation.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold