IntelliQuotations

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently."

Warren Buffett

"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."

Japanese Proverb

"Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

James Russell Lowell

"The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it."

Jose Iturbi

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

Margaret Mitchell

"A good reputation is more valuable than money."

Publilius Syrus

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

Socrates

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."

Oscar Wilde

"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was."

Joseph Hall

"There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs."

Anthony D'Angelo

"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want."

Erich Fromm

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."

Erich Fromm

"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them."

Erich Fromm

"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."

Scott Adams

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

Harold S. Geneen

"Fortune bifriends the bold."

Latin proverb

"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

Erich Fromm

"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."

Erich Fromm

"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."

Erich Fromm

"Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions."

Edward Coke

"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process."

Harold S. Geneen

"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart."

Alan Alda

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."

Ursula K. Le Guin

"The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty."

Peter Mandelson

"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."

Karl Von Clausewitz

"Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit."

Martin Feldstein

"If you have to forecast, forecast often."

Edgar R. Fiedler

"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data."

John Naisbitt

"Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going."

John Naisbitt

"The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present."

John Naisbitt

"Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water."

Zig Ziglar

"For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough."

Zig Ziglar

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

Zig Ziglar

"People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."

Zig Ziglar

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

Zig Ziglar

"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."

Zig Ziglar

"Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

Zig Ziglar

"You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success."

Zig Ziglar

"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner."

Zig Ziglar

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

Zig Ziglar

"For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough."

Zig Ziglar

"Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust."

Zig Ziglar

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

Peter F. Drucker

"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."

Scott Adams

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

Tom Brokaw

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

Confucius

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."

Albert Einstein

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."

Henry Ford

"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

Benjamin Franklin

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

Harold S. Geneen

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."

Aristotle Onassis

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

Colin Powell

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

Will Rogers

"Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities."

Walter Scott

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

Al Bernstein

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

Dale Carnegie

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

Bill Cosby

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it."

Sam Ewing

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein

"The market may be bad, but I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every hour and cried."

"The market is weird. Every time one guy sells, another one buys, and they both think they're smart."

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."

"When you are thirsty, it is too late to think about digging a well."

Japanese Proverb

"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it."

Glasgow, Arnold H.

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

Berra, Yogi