Joseph Hall Quotes

A reputation is really hard to live down.

Once you lose your credibility, you can never restore it.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just think it is time that we stop viewing public figures as fair game.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

We lament the mistakes of a good man, and do not begin to detest him until he affects to renounce his principles.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.

It was funny because on the day that I joined the club, the newspaper that broke the news was one that people don't always trust or believe. Then, when I signed, and there were pictures of me and Sir Alex Ferguson, people believed it.

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets - and can be lost in a heartbeat.

Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.