Reputation
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Harman International's dedication to research and development, as well as its strict adherence to quality manufacturing, are well known throughout the corporate world. The opportunity to lead a company with such high standards, worldwide reputation, and outstanding growth potential is extremely appealing.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.