A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Mark Twain

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Miguel de Cervantes

I remember my grandmother used to always say, 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket.' But when I realized that music was inside of me, I decided I'm putting all my eggs in one basket.

Dianne Reeves

Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' is all wrong. I tell you 'put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket.'

Andrew Carnegie

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

Ernie Banks

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

Richard Koch

My whole thing is if you want to do it, then do it. Kobe told me this, but he said, 'You don't wanna lay all your eggs in one basket, but you wanna lay all your eggs in one basket.' If you wanna do something and be great at it, that's what you're going to have to specialize in. Just take it and run.

Mohamed Bamba

Put all your eggs in one basket. Then you're less likely to drop that basket.

David Haye

I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.

Stanley Druckenmiller

The greatest safety lies in putting all your eggs in one basket and watching the basket.

Gerald M. Loeb

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Elon Musk

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Andrew Carnegie

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Andrew Carnegie

The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.