In some areas of life, your reputation is defined by your wins.

• Creative pursuits. One bestseller or hit song can erase the memory of the ones that didn't work.
• Entrepreneurship. People rarely remember your failed business ideas, only your winning ones.

In areas like these, your mistakes fade away and the breakthroughs last. But in other areas of life, your reputation is defined by your losses.

• Crime. You can drive safely 364 days a year, but one DUI changes everything.
• Ethics and morals. One unethical decision can ruin a reputation and destroy trust.

In areas like these, your mistakes linger and consistency is rewarded.

Some areas of life reward your best day. Others punish your worst day. <br/>Know which situation you're in, and you can better decide when to be risky and when to play it safe.

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

How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputation!

Reputation is for those who can afford it.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

Your good name and reputation make you who you are. Don’t give them away

A businessperson cares abt his reputation as it facilitates business, not as an end. For people who aren't free, reputation is the end.

One would like to leave behind a glorious reputation for surpassing wisdom and character, but careful reflection will show that what we mean by love of a glorious reputation is delight in the approbation of others. Neither those who praise nor those who abuse last for long, and the people who have heard their reports are like likely to depart the world as quickly. Before whom then should we feel ashamed? By whom should we wish to be appreciated? Fame, moreover inspires backbiting. It does no good whatsoever to have one's name survive. A craving after fame is next foolish.

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.

He who exults in popular esteem has the daily burden of anxiously striving, acting and contriving to preserve his reputation. For the populace is fickle and inconstant, and unless a reputation is preserved it soon withers away.

I tell no secret when I repeat that fame and reputation are much a matter of luck and chance.

somehow it is only when you don’t care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Reputation is the echo of your actions.