Read the original article: A Lesson from the Golden Eggs, which appeared in the March 2008 issue of Farm Journal. A few years ago, I wrote a column based on Aesop’s fable about the goose that ...

THE goose that lays the golden egg,” said Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, “is production. If you haven’t got a payroll, you haven’t got consumers.” On that thesis, the Eisenhower ...

I’ve had people ask to buy my goose eggs for art projects. But because geese only lay at most around 40 eggs per year, and ...

Now he only has one goose, which he plans also to sell. However, the goose lays a golden egg, which the farmer is able to sell for a lot of money. Further golden eggs follow, and the farmer ...