Insight on your Professional Reputation

In my upcoming eBook, Engagement: Jump Start Your Audit Career in Public Accounting, I talk a lot about the importance of maintaining a reputation for being professional, hard working, and effective. Below are a few additional words of wisdom:

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Joseph Hall

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Benjamin Franklin

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Warren Buffet