Maintaining Reputation Quotes

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.