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

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'
Mikhail Gorbachev

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

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin Franklin

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Calamity Jane

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
Anthony Holden

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
Peter Singer

It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.
Caroline Dhavernas

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Mencius

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

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
Phyllis Schlafly

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Laurence J. Peter

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

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.
Sophia Bush

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.
Harold Brodkey

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
Thomas Kretschmann

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.
Brian Koslow

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
Jane Pauley