But before you embark on your journey to the riches, think about this:
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered
It pays to be greedy, but not too greedy or else you'll get in trouble. If you get too greedy like a hog, you can end up loosing it all.
For example, when my business partner and I started Crazy Egg we could have sold it for around 6 million to one of the top internet companies. We were a bit greedy at the time and wanted no less than 10 million dollars.
At this time the company had been around for a year and it wasn't even bring in $20,000 a month. On top of that we were losing money because our costs were higher than our revenue.
We should have been grateful that someone wanted to give us that kind of money, and accepted the offer. If you analyze the numbers, we weren't even worth 6 million. If we took the 6 million at the time, we would have been happy pigs, but instead both my business partner and I wanted to be hogs.
Now that 6 million dollar blunder wasn't even the worst mistake I made, but we won't get into that right now. So in hopes that you won't make mistakes revolved around greed, here are some things you should know if you plan on owning a business:
'Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered' Meaning: This idiom is used to express being satisfied with enough, that being greedy or too ambitious will be your ruin.
Cows and hogs are slaughtered every day.
Pigs do not like being slaughtered. Pigs who suffer a painful, inhumane, or slow death definitely do not like be slaughtered.
Lots of pigs are slaughtered every year but if they drop to 150 lbs. max and get a nice spray tan then they get to live. Don't make fun of fat people or skinny people saying there pigs you jerk.
YES
Hogs and pigs.
there not really "pigs" there wild hogs and there huge
The USDA reports that in 1998, nearly 101.0 million commercial hogs were slaughtered
Hogs or swine.
swine and hogs
Pigs, hogs, swine
Hog is another common name for a pig.