A good reputation is something you must pay for, but you can never buy.
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Cassio: Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!
line from Othello, Act II, Scene 3 by William Shakespeare (1603)
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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.
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I would rather be cheated than cheat anyone. I would rather sacrifice 'gain' and have my reputation intact, because my reputation is more important to me than yours.
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
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The shame
To go without a reputation is a shame.
To lose the reputation is much more.
Shamelessness is the animalism,
Permissible only in sexual acts.
17.11.2005
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But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
quote by Helen Rowland
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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
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I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
quote by C.L.R. James
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I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.
There is nothing better than a good reputation.
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Worry more about your conscience than your reputation. Because your conscience is what you are, your reputation is what others think of you. And what others think of you is their problem.
quote by Charlie Chaplin
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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
quote by Saint Augustine
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Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
quote by Elizabeth Arden
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A good reputation stands still; a bad one runs.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
quote by Publilius Syrus
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
A good reputation is better than a golden girdle.