Reputation Quotes - Page 6

You cannot build God’s reputation if you aren’t willing to risk yours.

I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

A good reputation is better than fame.

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very high reputations, even Nobel prize winners, often sell in very low figures.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

You're less apprehensive when you know what to expect. Also, the first flight is very important in this performance-driven culture I work in; it establishes your reputation. If you don't do well, it's probably your last flight.

Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation for being quite callous when it comes to culling staff. They are selected personally by me. I socialize with all my staff and they know me well and I consider them friends and we travel overseas together.

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

A good reputation is something that must be earned, yet can never be bought.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.