A Quote by Neil Gaiman

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

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman
British - Author
Born: November 10, 1960

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

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

Charles Spurgeon

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

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

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

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.