Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They’re my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He’s just really cool.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

My reputation precedes me now.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

I 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.

There’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.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

The 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.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

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.

If 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.

I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous – a no-nonsense guy.

I 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.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Any 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.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Perception 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.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

Reputation 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.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.