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Reputation Quotes
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
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"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
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"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."
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"Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars."
16
"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."
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"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
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"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
12
"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."
12
"It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us."
12
"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."
12
"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."
11
"That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!"
11
"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."
10
"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
10
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
9
"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."
9
"Integrity, once tarnished, or broken, is hard to recover."
9
"I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair."
8
"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."
8
"Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them."
7
"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."
7
"No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred."
7
"Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked."
6
"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."
6
"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."
6
"Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us."
5
"Communicating negatively (gossiping, bragging, bullying, and criticizing) can be disastrous to your reputation, cause you to lose the respect of others, and leave a terrible impression. Why leave this essential expertise up to chance when it can make or break the success of your relations?"
5
"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."
5
"Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around."
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"Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs."
5
"We do not have the right to make the name of God look bad by our pitiful and impoverished existence."
5
"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"
5
"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."
4
"Speaking of your eyeballs, dear brother,I overheard some girls talking about you in the restroom at the tournament hotel. Apparently rumor now has it that you won't allow anyone to see your eyes-ever. In fact, according to this knowledgeable source, you even sleep and shower with your glasses on in case someone unexpectedly walks in...one of them said she'd seen your eyes for herself two years ago and could only describe them as 'ferocious and roving,' and 'burning white-hot with a primal, raw wildness."
4
"If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty."
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