“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.
        
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                        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.”
 
                            
                        
                        
                        As quoted in The Making of Dune (1984) by Ed Naha, p. 213
 
                            
                        
                        
                        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.”
                                        
                                        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.”
 
        
     
                             
                            