Patti Smith Quotes

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.

If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

Our profession is the chastest of all; even the shadow of a fault tarnishes the luster of our finest achievements.

As long as I do a good job and do it professionally and people see the quality, and see who I really am, then I think that's all you can do in football.

I just have to focus on what I can do and keep making a living and keeping my name up there as the best pound-for-pound fighter.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

We have seen some of the greatest athletes fall because they have tried to take shortcuts. I'm not going to call any names but we talk about guys that was like at the top of their game that people just idolized. They looked in awe and all of a sudden you see them just come tumbling down because they want to take shortcuts. I think it's more rewarding when you do it the old fashioned way.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one.

You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.

Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

Nothing I like to do pays well.

Success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three Cs of bad business. Call it trite, but believe me: success can be achieved through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change, and most of all, boldness to dream.

This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.

We can become great in the eyes of others, but we'll never become successful when we compromise our character and show disloyalty toward friends or teammates. The reverse is also true: No individual or team will become great without loyalty.

The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.