You don't build a reputation on what you're going to do

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.