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“In a gold rush, sell shovels”… Well, at some point in the gold rush everyone already has their shovels and pickaxes.


Or people start to realize that the expected gold isn't really there and so stop buying shovels


The version I heard growing up was "In a gold rush, sell eggs."


Selling jeans is the one that actually worked




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