Reputation Quotes
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it"
-Ben Franklin
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-Henry Ford
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
-Warren Buffett
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing."
-Michael Iapoce
"It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation."
-Nietzsche
Nobody raises his reputation by lowering others"
-Anonymous
A good reputation is more valuable than money."
-Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
-Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
-William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
-Brian Koslow
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
-Oscar Wilde