Golden Eggs Quotes

• It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Eggs, Common Sense, Greed

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• Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

  Aesop

  Gratitude, Eggs, Golden

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• The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Eggs, Bankers, Golden

  Louis D. Brandeis (2009). “Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

  Stephen Covey

  Eggs, Two, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.64, Mango Media Inc.

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• The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

  George M. Humphrey

  Eggs, Golden, Consumers

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• You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.

  Paul Tsongas

  Eggs, Employment, Golden

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• Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Eggs, People, Golden

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Feb 07, 2013

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• When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Layers, Golden

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Success, Eggs, Laziness

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• Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eggs, Golden, Geese

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Hands, Eggs, Directors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.

  Clementa C. Pinckney

  Eggs, Police, Cameras

  "Charleston shooting: state senator Clementa Pinckney among victims" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2015.

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• Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Eggs, Golden, Occult

  Karl Marx, Eden Paul (1933). “Capital”

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• Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eggs, Swim, Golden

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• Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs

  Margaret Thatcher

  Eggs, Golden, Socialism

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• That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Gratitude

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• To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.

  Stephen Covey

  Essence, Eggs, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

  Mark Doty

  Animal, Eggs, Two

  Mark Doty (2012). “Paragon Park: Turtle Swan, Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, Early Poems”, p.100, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Do not take the creative process personally. At every stage, you are going to feel like it's all falling apart, like the golden egg of truth in your brain is not manifesting on the page or on set or in the edit. But that panic, that loss, that pain - that is the process of creation. Let it hurt, drink some coffee and keep going.

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  Hurt, Pain, Fall

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Eggs, Golden

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

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• I think 3D is a great innovation for the film business. But I hope it's not the thing that kills the golden egg because what's happening now is every movie there's pressure from the studio to turn it into a 3D movie.

  Neal H. Moritz

  Thinking, Eggs, Innovation

  Source: collider.com

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• In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.

  Thomas Sowell

  Eggs, Long, Political

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• To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

  Jeb Bush

  Government, Eggs, Long

  "Deinventing Government". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. June, 1995.

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• When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Kindness, Eggs

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

  Murray Rothbard

  Eggs, Golden, Rich

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