Top 60 Reputation Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Business Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

2. “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.”

— Jeff Bezos

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Marketing Quotes

3. “Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.”

— Mike Paul

Also featured in: Honesty Quotes, Quotes About Trust

4. “Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

— Anthony Volodkin

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Business Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Quotes About Work

5. “If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Character Quotes, Humility Quotes

6. “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Morality Quotes, Deep Quotes, Quotes About People

7. “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.”

— Jeff Bezos

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Service Quotes, Marketing Quotes

8. “Young man, make your name worth something.”

— Andrew Carnegie

Also featured in: Work Ethic Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Legacy Quotes

9. “I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you’re well on your way to success in this world.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes

10. “It’s not what you know or who you know, but who knows you.”

— Susan RoAne

Also featured in: Personal Branding Quotes

11. “Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.”

— Wilson Mizner

Also featured in: Quotes About People, Witty Quotes

12. “People buy from people they trust and they trust people they like.”

— Garrison Wynn

Also featured in: Common Sense Quotes, Small Business Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes, Quotes About Trust

13. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Values Quotes, Honesty Quotes

14. “Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Individuality Quotes, Marketing Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

15. “Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Have a Great Day Quotes

16. “Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes

17. “Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

18. “If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

19. “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”

— Maurice Switzer

Also featured in: Common Sense Quotes, Different Quotes, Silence Quotes

20. “For ecommerce, the most important thing is trust.”

— Jack Ma

Also featured in: Quotes About Trust

21. “You don’t demand respect, you earn it.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Common Sense Quotes, Different Quotes, Respect Quotes

22. “Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

23. “Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head, and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you’ll be ruled by what other people think of you.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women

24. “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard

Also featured in: Demotivational Quotes

25. “Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Also featured in: Respect To Be Respected Quotes

26. “The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.”

— Bret Hart

Also featured in: Legacy Quotes, Victory Quotes, Epic Quotes, Wrestling Quotes

27. “If I were down to the last dollar of my marketing budget, I’d spend it on PR!”

— Bill Gates

Also featured in: Communication Quotes, Marketing Quotes

28. “A man is known by the company he keeps.”

— Aesop

Also featured in: Common Sense Quotes, Friendship Quotes

29. “Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Personal Branding Quotes, Judging Quotes

30. “So don’t be average. Don’t be good. Don’t be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men, Legacy Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

31. “Your brand name is only as good as your reputation.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Personal Branding Quotes

32. “Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.”

— Dale Carnegie

33. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Duty Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

34. “You are what your record says you are.”

— Bill Parcells

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Competition Quotes, Football Quotes

35. “Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes

36. “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Humanism Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Influence Quotes

37. “In the end they’ll judge me anyway, so whatever.”

— Kid Cudi

Also featured in: Judging Quotes

38. “We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you’re going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you’re going to make. Whatever legacy you’re going to leave; leave your legacy!”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Intention Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

39. “You are remembered for the rules you break.”

— Douglas MacArthur

40. “Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth.”

— Jay Abraham

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes

41. “If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Honesty Quotes, Principles And Laws

42. “Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work, Accountability Quotes

43. “It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”

— Will Rogers

44. “It’s not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

45. “It’s important to build a personal brand because it’s the only thing you’re going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you’ve got to be a good person. You can’t hide anything, and more importantly, you’ve got to be out there at some level.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Small Business Quotes, Marketing Quotes, Personal Branding Quotes

46. “There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out.”

— Mae West

Also featured in: Hilarious Quotes, Sexy Quotes

47. “Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Legacy Quotes, Respect To Be Respected Quotes

48. “If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes

49. “Be dignified, honest and truthful.”

— Umar

Also featured in: Respect To Be Respected Quotes

50. “How they treat you defines them. How you treat others defines you.”

— Rita Zahara

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes