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

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

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

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

George M. Humphrey

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

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

Noel Gallagher

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

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Neil Gaiman

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

E. A. Bucchianeri

Don't kill the golden goose.

Malcolm Mclaren

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

Charles Spurgeon

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

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

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

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