- Nov 07, 2020
Reputation Quotes
Built slowly, lost quickly.
These lines reflect on how long reputation takes to build and how quickly it can unravel, a warning meant to change how people act day to day. More on trust is in Good.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Build
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 20 years old when I started playing in the Premier League. Maybe mentally I wasn't quite prepared for it, and that has earned me a reputation.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
- Devoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Pink
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.
- Nov 07, 2020