It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.
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