As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.
My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is manufactured; character is grown. Reputation is your photograph; There is a vast difference between character and reputation. Reputation is what men think we are; character is what God knows us to be. Reputation is seeming; character is being. Reputation is the breath of men; character is the inbreathing of the eternal God. One may for a time have a good reputation and a bad character, or the reverse ; but not for long.
I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.
We are deeply conditioned against unconditionality because we've been told in a thousand different ways that accomplishment always precedes acceptance, that achievement always precedes approval.
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
The enterprise of America precedes that of Europe, as the industry of England precedes that of the rest of Europe.
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.
I take it you know my companion?" Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything." Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby.