Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.
There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
I don't think I'll ever get away from my reputation.
If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a strange idea of doing service to his reputation.
