Reputation

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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
I would most like to be remembered for bringing emphasis to an economic structure in which the characteristic organization is the great corporation rather than the competitive enterprise and of seeing economic life as a bipolar phenomenon.

Interview, 1986
You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.
Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
I'm not retiring because I'm old and tired. I'm retiring because an organization has had 20 years of me. My success will be determined by how well my successor grows it in the next 20 years.

Quoted in 'The Ultimate Manager,' Fortune. (November 1999)
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Quoted in Woodbury Reports Archives (December 1994)
He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconstant, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition
At every word a reputation dies
Work is the price which is paid for reputation
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