It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

It takes time to develop a name, to develop reputation and to develop acceptance.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Now you know all there is to know. But it will be twenty years before you see.

I think my reputation is something that I'll probably try to spend the rest of my life living it down and it probably won't work.

يستلزم الأمر 20 سنة لبناء سمعة طيبة, وخمس دقائق لتدمير هذه السمعة

I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.