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• Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.
  Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are....
• Reputation: what others are not thinking about you.
• Reputation is what others are not thinking about you.
• Reputation, adj: What others are not thinking about you.
• You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do. -- Liz Smith
• You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford
• Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.
• History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
  -- Doctor Emilio Lizardo/Lord John Whorfin in "Buckaroo Banzai...