#reputation

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

— Warren Buffett

#brilliance #business #economics #intact #management

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#health #his #lose #man #money

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#am #anchored #any #die #here

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

#build #differently #five #minutes #reputation

Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then? ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#reputation #crime

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#benevolence #epigram #reputation #wild

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#gossip #libel #reputation #rumor #slander

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death #deeds #evil #good #legacy

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#deprive #grave #life #may #most

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#declines #goes #increases #reputation #time