Eggs In One Basket Quotes

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Eggs, Vaccines, Business Success

  "James Watt".

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• Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

  Nora Roberts

  Eggs, Break, Baskets

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Hot Rocks”, p.183, Penguin

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• 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

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.228

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• I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.

  Ricky Schroder

  Thinking, Eggs, Baskets

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

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Eggs, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

  Warren Buffett

  Easter, Eggs, Investment Success

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.13, Carolina Academic Press

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Wisdom, Perseverance

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• 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.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Eggs, Dropping

  "'New window on universe' excites Stephen Hawking". Interview with Eric Berger, www.chron.com. April 10, 2011.

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• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Easter, Investment Success, Chocolate Eggs

  "Moral essays on proverbs". Book by Samuel Palmer, 1710.

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• Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket.

  Jim Rogers

  Eggs, Choices, Watches

  "Jim Rogers: Diversification Is A Scam" by John Carney, www.businessinsider.com. April 16, 2009.

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• I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Real, Mean, Blow

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. Ocotber 15, 2003.

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• To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly. We did that for a long time and I don't think it's very smart.

  John Kasich

  Smart, Silly, Thinking

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Wisdom, Eggs, Watches

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• 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

  Funny, Wise, Money

  Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 15

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• Start with the least amount of money possible. Some people say they need a certain amount to start, and I say you need a half of that or a third of that. That gives you the biggest return. If you put all your eggs in one basket, it's harder to adapt when you need to. Unless it's very capital-intensive, you don't need much money.

  Cameron Johnson

  Eggs, People, Giving

  "Serial Entrepreneur Cameron Johnson Shares Success Secrets". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 12, 2015.

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• I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Eggs, Baskets, Dump

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• The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Eggs, Agriculture, Needs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.

  Andy Grove

  Eggs, Goal, Watches

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• For me, I just never put all my eggs in one basket, so to speak. I know that music and acting now are things that I want to do for the rest of my life. But, if suddenly that was to stop, I'd actually be okay. It's not the be all, end all of my life. I know who I am, outside of this, and I think that's a really big thing to have.

  Jordin Sparks

  Thinking, Eggs, Who I Am

  "Jordin Sparks Talks THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER & PETE, Filming LEFT BEHIND with Nicolas Cage, IN THE HEIGHTS on Broadway, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2013.

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• 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

  Wisdom, Eggs, Energy

  Address to students at Curry Commercial College, Pittsburgh, Pa., 23 June 1885. Printed in Carnegie's book, The Empire of Business (1902).

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• 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

  Sports, Business, Talking

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• As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Brother

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• I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket.

  Michael Demon Calce

  Clouds, Eggs, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Literature, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

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