We have damaged our reputation in the world and thus reduced our power. We were once seen as the paragon of law; we are now in many corners of the globe the laughing stock of the law.

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

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.

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

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

I know I got a bad reputation 'Walk around, always mad' reputation 'Leave a pretty girl sad' reputation Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation<p> Close your eyes and let the word paint a thousand pictures One good girl is worth a thousand bitches Bound.

It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five 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.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

You know, that’s what’s wrong with us on the public level. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better. Our society is hurtling in free fall toward heaven knows where,

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

@MattWalshBlog "Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it."

It’s easy to lose your reputation, it’s easy to lose your friends, to lose their confidence, than to regain it.

I think for me, that was a low point. The credibility for this institution was eroded. For an institution this important to be subjected to that is bad. At the end of the day, it was not just the CBN that suffered for it, but the economy as a whole did suffer.