#comp

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cold #completely #day #every #how

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#lot #loves #misery #misery loves company

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism. ↗

— Mike Pence

#big #big government #captain #conservative #conservative movement

Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one. ↗

— Li Peng

#complex #diversified #ours #world

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#incompetence #last #laziness #luck #refuge

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#business #competition #fear #idea #merchant

There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#best #brought #career #challenge #company

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. ↗

— Samuel Pepys

#business #company #drinking #find #god

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#experience #just #most #nerve-racking #people

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. ↗

— Gary Ross

#change #complexity #contradiction #each #else