Golden Goose Quotes

#1. Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.

Richard Diaz

#2. Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

Lee Loevinger

#3. I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

Todd Rundgren

#4. (The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)

Nancy B. Brewer

#5. Don't kill the golden goose.

Malcolm McLaren

#6. When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.

Noel Gallagher

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

Stephen Covey

#8. 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 R. Covey

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#10. The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

Carlos Wallace

#11. John Kerry went hunting today. He said he killed a goose. He didn't bring Teresa along because he was a little rusty and he was afraid he might kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

Jay Leno

#12. 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

#13. Speaking softly and slowly, and breathing through the vocal chords in a low voice, has become the mythical ideal voice for a yoga teacher.

Gudjon Bergmann

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

Neil Gaiman

#15. I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

Ulysses S. Grant

#16. The one thing that makes writing a better pastime than reading is that you can make things turn out the way you want in the end!

Geraldine McCaughrean

#17. 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

#18. When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What's more, there is no one to save you because you've turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system.

Carlos Wallace

#19. The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

George M. Humphrey

#20. When people asked hilbert why he didn't prove Fermat's Last Theorem and win the Wolfskehl Prize, he said, "Why should I kill the goose that lays the golden egg?

Constance Bowman Reid

#21. PHP as an object oriented programming language should be judged by how well it does the job, not on a preconceived notion of what a scripting language should or shouldn't do.

Peter Lavin

#22. My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.

Helen Keller

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Throughout our lives we will meet individuals who benefit from the assistance of others yet are resentful of receiving another person's goodwill.

Carlos Wallace

#26. Christ ... an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

Andre Malraux

#27. Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

J.C. Ryle

#28. It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

Novak Djokovic

#29. Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks.

Ken Scott

#30. Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.

Carlos Wallace

#31. 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

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

Charles Spurgeon

#33. When you switch your focus from the "we" to the "me", the goal from "team" to "self", you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.

Carlos Wallace

#34. Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

Jaggi Vasudev

#35. 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