Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
A good name is better than precious ointment.
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason - his stuff is fun to read. . . It's. . . filled with the freshness and the freewheeling independence that made his reputation. . . This book is the 'work' of one of the least pretentious and most enjoyable to read novelists at play in America today.
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.
I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.
Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks such ideas must seem to be a trifle self-confident and even aggressive. The man who makes his entry by leaning against an infirm door gets an unjustified reputation for violence. Something is to be attributed to the poor state of the door.
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
Mere wealth, I am above it, It is the reputation wide, The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride That eagerly I covet.
I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must build character in peacetime because there is no time in war. Character is the most important quality you can find in any person, but especially in a soldier. It is the foundation that will get anybody through anything he may encounter. Reputation is what people think you are; character is what you are- that is the staying power.
