Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
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.'
I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.
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.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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.
I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Don't count your chickens before they egg.
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
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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.
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.'
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.
It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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.
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