Better Mousetrap Quotes

#1. Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Ronald Reagan

#3. Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

James D. Carswell

#4. Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#5. Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it; it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.

Denham Sutcliffe

#6. Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#7. Just when you've squared up to the solemn realisation that life is a bitch, it turns round and does something nice, just to confuse you. - Emily Spitzer, The Better Mousetrap

Tom Holt

#8. You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the world to beat a path to our dear. You've got to build a market for your book.

Larry Winget

#9. If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people ...

Lee Clow

#10. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time.

Paul Auster

#12. The object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Julius Lester

#13. Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

A.G. Gaston

#14. The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

Daymond John

#15. No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#16. We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.

Jason Kilar

#17. At its deepest level, creativity is not about building a better mousetrap. It's about freeing the mouse.

Victor Shamas

#18. If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Lawrence Block

#19. If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

George Gobel