It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.
I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?
I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.
It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines.
You only have one thing in business, and that is your reputation
Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.
I've been in this biz so long, it's really my reputation that brings me work.
Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.
In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
Still, it formed one of my basic beliefs about success which is this: most of the time, success can be measured in terms of how much more than others you have of something that's in short supply. This includes money, reputation, respect, etc.