#reputation

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

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#after #cases #civilized #civilized society #defense

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

— Richard Hanna

#avoid #even #hard #i #reputation

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you. ↗

— Tom Hicks

#approach #awhile #every #last #nickel

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. ↗

— Sam Houston

#give #honest #honest man #i #if i could

I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#i #need #office #order #president

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

— Isaac Asimov

#obvious #pays #reputation #subtlety #you

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#fall #regularly #reputations #rise #tides

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

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