Quotes for Reputation

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

George Washington

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

Keith Gessen

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

Publilius Syrus

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

C. L. R. James

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.

Brian Kernighan

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

Ian MacKaye

Canadians are known for having a social conscience, and so our political leaders need to do more to uphold that reputation on the international stage.

Jagmeet Singh

My dad is Dominican, my mother's Puerto Rican, and I got into bachata at the age of 10 or 11. When I started listening, it had a reputation for being music for hick people. I thought that had to be changed. I was born and raised in the Bronx, and I knew you make something cool if you're cool.

Romeo Santos

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Saul Alinsky

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

It's a confidence booster for me to be known as a female who can take on any action, which is nice, to have that reputation, because then people know that when they hire me, I can actually do the physical stuff.

Rachel Nichols

I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It's strange when you realise your popularity or reputation is a marketable commodity; it's a stock, a currency.

Bill Bailey

I never thought I'd have to be fighting for my reputation and the poor horse's reputation.

Bob Baffert

The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

Anita Borg

For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I've encouraged other people to do the same.

Lucy Lawless

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Isaac Asimov

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

George Tenet

It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.

Fred Wilson

John Peel made his reputation with his radio show and his record label, Dandelion, by championing the underdog.

Jimmy Page

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

Bill Toomey