How an individual’s reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world. – Jonathan Zittrain
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character. – John D. Rockefeller
I think I’ve earned a reputation of being fair and that I’ll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum. – Jason Chaffetz
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. – James Payn
People sometimes approach me tentatively or suspiciously because of my father’s reputation as a world-class negotiator, as if they think I’m about to take advantage of them. As if I know something I’m not letting on. – Ivanka Trump
If you aren’t overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult. – Janeane Garofalo
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. – J. B. Priestley
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. – James Russell Lowell
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. – John Wooden
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark. – Calamity Jane
It’s really odd that I’ve got this kind of sullen reputation – I never saw myself that way. – Irvine Welsh
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. – Charles Caleb Colton
I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful. – Alison Owen
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. – Benjamin Franklin
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. – Barney Frank
My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste. – Betty Parsons
I suppose the more established one gets, you have what’s called a reputation, and so you want to protect that and preserve that. And I think the bravery really comes in one’s mid career where you then are constantly trying to move beyond that and move past that, because those so-called successors can become shackles. – Cate Blanchett
Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems. – Brian Kernighan
Ever since I became a Muslim, I’ve had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. – Cat Stevens
One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy. – Brian Koslow
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation. – Anthony Holden
Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours. – Brian Koslow