Reputation Quotes

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.