Quotes on 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.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.

The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

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.

Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.