Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.
Muhammad AliEvery man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMy reputation precedes me now.
Dwayne JohnsonThat was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
Hunter S. ThompsonAny hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.
Kevin HartAli’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.
Muhammad AliWhen the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. ThompsonI don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.
Dolly PartonMuhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.
Conor McGregorAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonFor my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis BaconThere’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.
Joe BidenWhen 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 BuffettMany a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert HubbardI done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.
Muhammad AliI’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.
Anthony HopkinsSonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
Muhammad AliMore than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.
Elvis PresleyI find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas JeffersonOne can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeTake from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAll you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.
Richard BransonI always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.
Muhammad AliTo be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.
Mr. TI have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John RuskinI’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.
Muhammad AliI think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
Gordon RamsayI have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.
Mr. TThe most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
John D. RockefellerNinety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry KissingerCaesar’s wife must be above suspicion.
Julius CaesarThe thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
Vivienne WestwoodWhoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim RohnThe more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Benjamin DisraeliIf you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Warren BuffettThe greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EpictetusYou can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.
J. ColeI’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.
Conor McGregorI’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.
Abby Lee MillerThe easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
F. Scott FitzgeraldA lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.
Mr. TReputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.
Robert GreeneI got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.
Richard P. FeynmanI would say things like ‚I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!‘ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‚That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.‘
Muhammad AliI’m a workin‘ girl.
Dolly PartonIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis BaconTime, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
VoltairePerception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
John KennedyThe truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
Noam ChomskyFloat like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad AliA celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon BonaparteGreece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
Karl LagerfeldA veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard ShawAt ev’ry word a reputation dies.
Alexander PopeIt takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Benjamin FranklinIn wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston ChurchillIf I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
Muhammad AliHow great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander the GreatIf all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise PascalA brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
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