[Capitalism] has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring or at the least lays golden eggs.
Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.
The goose that lays the golden egg 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. They control the people through the people's own money.
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.
Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.
Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs.
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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.
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.
Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.
