Reputation Quotes

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.

You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.

Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

We do benefit from the fact that once we say we're going to do it, people believe we can do it, because we have the resources. Google helps in that way: There aren't many funding mechanisms like that.

It took a lot of guts, I really disagreed with him, I was not his fan, but I'll tell you what, what he did, he brought back his reputation, he brought it back. He's got to hang tough, because there's a lot of, lotta people, want him to do the wrong thing, what he did was the right thing.

The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

It's a challenge to have the broader world know the Walmart we know.

Our world is increasingly transparent and we're out to earn trust. When people shine a light on Walmart and see our decisions - the jobs we create, the activities in our supply chain - we want them to like what they see.

In some circles, Walmart has this reputation of being really tough. I would say we're tough on behalf of the customer, but we always try to be fair, and if you look at the financial results of our suppliers, they've done really well, and P&G still makes more money than Walmart does after all this time, so this has worked out well for everybody, but we do keep on the pressure on behalf of the customer.

I experienced, along with the rest of the team, what it was like to go from being a Cinderella story with a great entrepreneur in Sam Walton to being large and disliked just because you're large, and all of the negatives that went with it. So I personally don't use the word "scale" very much because when I hear that word I think of pain.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

The world thinks of us as a country which is strong, but which will never start a war. The world also thinks of us as a land which has never enslaved anyone and which is animated by humane ideals. This friendship, based on common ideals, is one of our greatest sources of strength.