#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

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#cases #deserved #most #reputation #well

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#felt #had #i #my own #own

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#character #god #know #men #men and women

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so. ↗

— Judge Reinhold

#being #demanding #difficult #got #had

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#great #least #mouth #open #purse

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#cheap #generosity #like #reputation #would