Pastoral Resources

I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

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

A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

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.

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.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

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