In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Better to die, than to live on with a bad reputation.

Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.

Makin’ mistakes ain’t a crime, you know. What’s the use of having a reputation if you can’t ruin it every now and then?

Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

Our reputations are so out of our control that it’s laughable how much time and effort so many of us put into trying to “control” them.

I was jumping into a track that has really gained a good reputation. It was particularly exciting, too, because I knew I had very big shoes to fill.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one’s life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

Kleos is sometimes translated as “acoustic renown” the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It’s a bit like having a large Twitter following.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

As long as we continue to do a good job, our reputation will take care of itself.

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what’s good and what’s not good.

It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things...

I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

It’s important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect–and shame comes when you lose that title–a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

Girls, watch out for the bad guys!…there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation.

I’m a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don’t go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely do not proselytize. Homosexuality is, to me, an inner satisfaction, a pride in a heritage of greatness. To marry a woman would be an inadmissible rejection of my identity.

Society’s goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: “Be normal!” Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free the fool.

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

…As for all the little people who call themselves Marquis de Cambremerde or de Gotoblazes, there is no difference between them and the humblest rookie in your regiment. Whether you go and do wee-wee at the Countess Cack’s or cack at the Baroness Wee-wee’s, it’s exactly the same, you will have compromised your reputation and...

Stop caring what people think about you. People will always have their opinions. Don’t worry about it. What you think about you (and what God thinks about you) is all that matters. You can never please everyone, so stop trying so hard to please people.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

p. 274 …his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not…a sign that he had conquered his ambitions, but rather that he fully realized that all ambitions were inherently insatiable and unconquerable. He knew himself well enough to resist the illusion that he transcended human nature. Unlike Julius Caesar...

But Georgia has maintained a reputation for having the best, most consistent-tasting peanuts around because our growers get the crop in when it needs to come in. We need to continue doing this, because the peanut industry is competitive, and consumers will taste the difference.

Everywhere I go, I’m second to arrive. My reputation precedes me, and sometimes it skips out on the bill.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

It’s not who you know that matters—it’s who knows you that’s important. Personal branding builds up your reputation to the point where you have a presence even in your absence.

Cary Grant was another gentleman who I saw around the lot. Wallace Berry had a reputation for being gruff but he was very nice to me.

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

You asked me just now for the truth—well, the truth about any girl is that once she’s talk about she’s done for; and the more she explains her case the worse it looks.

Where he comes from, the education he has received, his family history, his wealth, they matter not a jot, but the perception he conveys – that my, boy, is the key. If they believe he belongs – that he is part of the room – then he does, he is. And whichever room he is...

Inside, I found three things: a silver mirror, a silk handkerchief, and a glass flask of ointment. These items will help you on your journey. use them when need be. If you ever lose faith in yourself, the mirror will show your inner beauty. In case your reputation is stained, the handkerchief will remind you...

In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not.

Trust me. In a very short time, you will become sought out by those in your network. Initially for your sound advice, but soon after as a provider of service. Few people seek advice about a subject that doesn’t require a solution.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

I’m certainly willing to let my reputation rise and fall on those two guys. We added two very good hockey players. We discovered some underutilized talents, and they can both be more than what they were allowed to be with their old franchises.

A bad reputation will dog you for years. A good reputation will cat you.

My name is a half an hour early, but my body is on time.

JC Flowers has a reputation in this market for making these types of investments. It’s someone known for restructurings and re-workings.

J.C. Flowers has a reputation in this market for making these types of investments. It’s someone known for restructurings and re-workings.

A critical ingredient which binds customers to a brand is trust

Reputations are just history in rumor form. You can change it.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.