The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of — for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

You must develop one all-important ability — being able to enlist the help of other people. You have to reach a state where others want to help you. This includes giving credit...which will come back to you a hundredfold. Your reputation stems from what people say when you’re not present.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.

Be as you wish to seem.

Be as you wish to seem

Appear as you may wish to be

If you want to make a name for yourself, make a good name.

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

Build a reputation that makes other people do deals through you.

The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good. The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. So far I have been able to accomplish that, and I believe I have gotten quite a reputation from not kicking at peculiar assignments.

Your credibility is built when others speak positively about you. Do the same for them whenever, and wherever, you can.

Your reputation is your most important asset. It precedes you before you walk into the room and lingers long after the work is done.