#reputation

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck. ↗

— Jack Welch

#bureaucracy #reputation #stiff #stuck #you

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. ↗

— William Wycherley

#call #honor #men #only #persons

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#gigantic #him #his #like #man

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#integrity #lie #reputation #single #whole

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. ↗

— Richard Hanna

#avoid #even #hard #i #reputation

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#his #know #man #many #met

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. ↗

— Gouverneur Morris

#continental #distinguished #elect #fail #man

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens! ↗

— Harry Nilsson

#drunk #get #happens #incident #look

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere. ↗

— Kim Novak

#begun #cans #cared #could #did

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#fail #half #men #pictures #reputation