“If you cheat, if your weights and measures are inaccurate, if your financial dealings are shoddy, if you take things that do not belong to you, you won't be able to hide it forever. People will find out. Then your reputation and your business will suffer, because people don't want to deal with someone who can't be trusted.” PeopleIfsWantAbleSufferingDealsForeverHonestyWeightFinancialReputationTrustedCheatDealings Author:Wayne D. Dosick
“Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.” LifeWellsHas BeensLyingEvilLostDealsCompanyCareersPlansCrimeChosenReputationFallenDamageGossipIdleRuinedViciousRumorSlanderDevastatedMaliciousIdle GossipRuined Life Author:Wayne D. Dosick
“I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.” PeopleDoneAbleDealsGoneHavensReputationContractsGet It DoneNegotiatingProfessional Work Author:Keith Rothfus
“If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.” IfsMenWorldNeedsShouldEndsMatterUseActionLastsDealsOpinionMankindThis WorldConversationAdvantageReputationOccasionsSincerityConversesWords And ActionsGood Words Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...
“Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.” GamesDealsPlayerMathematicsVery GoodGlassesReputationMathematicianBeads Book:The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel