CronoDAS comments on Rationality Quotes October 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 06 October 2013 01:30:37AM 14 points [-]

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

-- Henry Ford

Comment author: wedrifid 06 October 2013 08:12:45AM 6 points [-]

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I wonder if that is true. I suspect a sufficiently competent personal marketer would be able to pull it off. Of course, it may be just as easy for them to build an equally positive reputation from absolutely nothing.

Comment author: Omegaile 09 October 2013 10:07:32PM 8 points [-]

So they are building their reputation on their marketing skills, not on the future.

Comment author: Baughn 06 November 2013 09:36:51PM 3 points [-]

Which is to say, causality goes only one way.

Comment author: AndHisHorse 09 October 2013 01:38:17PM 1 point [-]

It may, however, be possible to build a reputation on what you are preparing to do.