Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington

• reputation
• friends
• associates

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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Judith Martin

• reputation
• bragging

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford

• reputation
• actions
• initiative

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity. If you can be absolutely relied upon; if when you say a thing is so, it is so; if when you say you will do a thing, you do it; then you carry with you a passport to universal esteem. Grenville Kleiser

• integrity
• reputation

Accuracy builds credibility. Jim Rohn

• reputation

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. Lord Jeffery

• reputation

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden

• character
• reputation

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. Anonymous

• reputation

Volume adds nothing to credibility. Abraham Lincoln

• speech
• reputation

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato

• reputation

And I honor the man who is willing to sink

Half his present repute for the freedom to think,

And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,

Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak. James Russell Lowell

• reputation
• freedom
• free speech
• risk

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. Karl Börne

• reputation

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat. Charlie Munger

• integrity
• reputation

Success is the peace of mind achieved when you know - in your heart - that you did your best at maximizing your potential according to your values. It has little to do with what others think of you. Darvin Raph

• reputation
• legacy
• success

Never affect to be other than you are—either richer or wiser. Never be ashamed to say, 'I do not know.' Men will then believe you when you say, 'I do know.'

Never be ashamed to say, whether as applied to time or money, 'I cannot afford it.'—'I cannot afford to waste an hour in the idleness to which you invite me—I cannot afford the guinea you ask me to throw away.'

Learn to say 'No' with decision, 'Yes' with caution; 'No' with decision whenever it resists a temptation; ‘Yes’ with caution whenever it implies a promise. A promise once given is a bond inviolable.

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. I have frequently seen in life a person preferred to a long list of applicants for some important charge, which lifts him at once into station and fortune, merely because he has this reputation—that when he says he knows a thing, he knows it, and when he says he will do a thing, he does it. Lord Bulwer Lytton

• character
• reputation