“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Context: 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 Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
As quoted in Corporate Survival: The Critical Importance of Sustainability Risk Management (2005) by Dan Robert Anderson, p. 138
“You cannot live forever, but what you create and build in your lifetime can.”
Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
Future Proofing You (2021)
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
As quoted in International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (1951) by William S. Walsh
Attributed from posthumous publications
Variant: You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Ernst Mach (1838–1916) Austrian physicist and university educator
Source: 19th century, Popular Scientific Lectures [McCormack] (Chicago, 1898), p. 197; On mathematics and counting.
Philip Kotler (1931) American marketing author, consultant and professor
Source: Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know, 2011, p. xiv
About the fortress Igi-hursaja. <br class="br">Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Letter from Shulgi to Puzur-Shulgi about work on the fortress Igi-hursanga http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3108.htm
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
No known source in Emerson's works; first found as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom in a 1936 newspaper column:<br>: Every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.<br>:* Junius, "Office Cat" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85995624/, The Daily Freeman [Kingston, NY] (30 December 1936), p. 6 <br class="br">Misattributed
