It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.
– Warren Buffett
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- It takes many years to build good reputations, but it takes a few minutes for their destruction. – Debasish Mridha
- You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett – Jimmy Buffett
- If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay. – Liezi
- 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
- Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are. – John Wooden
- It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made — so faithful is the public. – Arnold Bennett
- Makin’ mistakes ain’t a crime, you know. What’s the use of having a reputation if you can’t ruin it every now and then? – Simone Elkeles
- …you can ruin your credit in one seemingly responsible afternoon, but rebuilding it takes years. – Sophia Amoruso
- Building trust takes long- years, sometimes decades. It takes a second, a word, or a misstep to lose it. Regaining trust takes even longer. – Assegid Habtewold
- I know it’s a lot. But she can handle it. I’d rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies. – Maria Semple
- Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful – Warren Buffett
- The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. – Warren Buffett
- There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my cl???, the rich cl???, that’s making war, and we’re winning. – Warren Buffett
- If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. – Warren Buffett
- You know … you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again. – Warren Buffett
- Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. – Warren Buffett
- Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press – Warren Buffett
- In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either. – Warren Buffett
- Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source. – Warren Buffett
- Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked. – Warren Buffett
- I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20. – Warren Buffett
- Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people. – Warren Buffett
- When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. – Warren Buffett
- The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say -œno- to almost everything. – Warren Buffett
- I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute. – Warren Buffett
- Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away. – Dave Matthes
- If you act like you’ve only got fifteen minutes, it will take all day. Act like you’ve got all day, it will take fifteen minutes. – Monty Roberts
- While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other People’s Minutes.-RVM – RVM
- A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them? – Ilse Aichinger
- Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please. – Shannon Celebi
- Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. – Erma Bombeck
- Five minutes ago is gone, never to be seen again. Five minutes from now, isn’t here yet….What are you going to do with it? – T L Henry
- If I’d wanted you dead five minutes ago, you’d have died five minutes ago. – Becca Fitzpatrick
- Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul. – DH Lawrence
- You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford
- Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. – Liz Smith
- For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build. – Andrew Griffin
- Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me.Those are the years that know-“ love’s eternity is you. – C Elizabeth
- It takes years to build on to a dream but only a second to shatter. – Chirag Tulsiani
- Some say loyalty inspires boundless hope. And while that may be, there is a catch. True loyalty takes years to build… and only seconds to destroy. – Emily Thorne