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"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."
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"Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around."

"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

"The company you keep determines how others view you. Identify with mediocrity and you will be labeled sub par. Collaborate with questionable people and your reputation becomes suspect. Guilt by association can end a career, hurt your business and cost you friends. Choose alliances wisely or you may be condemned for someone else's sins."

"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."

"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."

"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."

"Like it or not, your life-what works well and what doesn't-is largely the result of the first impressions you have created along the way."

"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."

"You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending."
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"One of the biggest problems with your average sales call is that the salesman doesn't know what he is trying to achieve. He hasn't worked out the end of the journey. So he sets off and just hopes he walks out with something."

"It's your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered."

"I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone. Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path there at all."

"If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight?"

"Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare."

"You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door."

"Who would be willing to put up with less than the desired result, if they could afford to have it done properly?"

"Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth. Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival. And although I am not there yet, I have come to this place to become such a man."
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