A Quote by Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
American - Educator
October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

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

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

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

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

Paul Tsongas

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

Todd Rundgren

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

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

Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

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

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

As a vegetarian eating a plateful of eggs, I found myself in this weird place where I didn't want to think about where those eggs came from. I didn't want to think about the treatment of the animals who produced those eggs. When I find myself trying not to think about things, it seems to me that I'm practicing avoidance.

Cory Booker

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I have no views as to where it will be, but the one thing I can tell you is it won't do anything between now and then except look at you. Whereas, you know, Coca-Cola (KO) will be making money, and I think Wells Fargo (WFC) will be making a lot of money and there will be a lot - and it's a lot - it's a lot better to have a goose that keeps laying eggs than a goose that just sits there and eats insurance and storage and a few things like that.

Warren Buffett

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