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“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving: you have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.” William Shakespeare, Othello
“Everyone knows a man's reputation except the man himself.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
“Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation.” Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.” Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“So, our honest politicians and our honorable corporation heads owe it to their reputations to bring their activities out into the open.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.” William Shakespeare, Richard II
“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1
“By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee...” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
“I’ve said many times that 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.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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