18 quotes found
“It seemed inequitable at best that one could and did gain a reputation for things that left one both physically and emotionally unsatisfied.”
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.”
“You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules. That an evil man can shed the trappings of wickedness because you want him to. Men do not Change... Learn the l...”
“Reputation never has very much to do with reality. I could name half a dozen paragons of virtue that are horrible, small-souled, evil people. And some of the best men I know, you'd walk out of the ...”
“Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.”
“My reputation grows with every failure.”
“No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reput...”
“Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of th...”
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”
“Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.”
“Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.”
“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
“When I did well I heard it never When I did ill I heard it ever.”
“The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.”
“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
“All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.”
