Reputation

Reputation

Reputation of a social entity (a person, a group of people, an organization) is an opinion about that entity, typically a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria. It is important in education, business, and online communities.

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Famous quotes containing the word reputation:

    “The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “The reputation of a man is like his shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.”
    —French Proverb. Quoted in Dictionary of Similes, ed. Frank J. Wilstach (1916)