21x20 Media presents
Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
Who first said don't put all your eggs in one basket? A hen with one basket, a 1666 proverb book, Carnegie, Twain and a Nobel Prize.
One basket. She is watching it.
The earliest English version is in a 1666 London book of Italian proverbs, where the eggs go in one paniard, a word nobody has pinned down since. In 1885 Andrew Carnegie told a class the opposite, put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket, and Mark Twain liked it enough to put it in a novel. In 1952 a graduate student named Harry Markowitz did the mathematics of spreading them around, and in 1990 it won a Nobel Prize. The hen is not moving hers.
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Studio21x20 Media
FormatAnimated short
Runtime1 minute, 14 seconds
Published
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