“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
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.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Henry Ford80
American industrialist 1863–1947Related quotes
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
“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
As quoted in The Making of Dune (1984) by Ed Naha, p. 213
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 97
John D. Bulkeley (1911–1996) United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
Source: As quoted in 1944, "Namesake USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) https://www.surflant.usff.navy.mil/Organization/Operational-Forces/Destroyers/USS-Bulkeley-DDG-84/About-Us/Namesake/
“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Variant: When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
Source: Miles Errant
“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer