It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.
I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.