“Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.”
St. Francis de Sales
“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
Oscar Wilde
“A woman can defend her virtue from men much more easily than she can protect her reputation from women”
Elbert Hubbard
“Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
Victor Kiam
“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
“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.”
Thomas Paine
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
