Simon Sinek Quotes

I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

Your reputation is none of your business.

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

I've always been interested in image and reputation management. Because really, when you think about it, it is an old phrase, but all we have is our word and our good name.

It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.

I'm very cautious of how I'm presented and my type of reputation.

People like to define you through what they've seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, 'I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.'

If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

"Smooth Sailing" and "Hall of Fame" are my top two nicknames. "Cool Guy." "Jolly Jon." "Fun Jon." There's a lot of derivatives of Jon. "Cool Jon." Some people took "Smooth Sailing" and "Fun Jon" and made "Smooth Jon." That's a good one. It's just starting to catch on with the general public. Just every now and then, "Hey! Smooth Jon!" Or "You're Smooth Jon, right?!" People aren't quite sure. I'm like, "Yeah." "Okay, cool, that's what I thought!"

Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

In terms of what people think about me, the truth of the matter is, I guess I care to a certain extent, but not enough to try to go out in the public and plead for some kind of new understanding of me.