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Letter "R" » Reputation
«The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows»
Author: Charles M. de Talleyrand
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
gigantic, precedes, proportions, pygmies, Pygmy
«Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.»
«The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation»
«The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation»
«We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap»
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Generosity,
Reputation
| Keywords:
buy it, cheap, generosity
«The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
appear, endeavor, endeavored, gain, reputation
«When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.»
Author: Warren Buffett
| About:
Business,
Economics,
Management,
Reputation
| Keywords:
economics, intact, management, tackle, tackled, tackles, tackling, The Business
«The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Life,
Reputation
| Keywords:
contemptible, deprive, deprives, grave, lamented, lamenting, The Grave, weakest, weapon, whisper
«The reputation of a woman may be compared to a mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
compared, liable, shining, sullied, sullying
«The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
anxiety, solar, solar system, The Solar System
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