...generations of would-be entrepreneurs than Ralph Waldo Emerson in his oft-quoted line: "If a man can make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though...woods the world will make a beaten path to his door." What can be called the great mousetrap fallacy was thus spawned. Indeed, it is often assumed that success...

...Love, honor, and respect God, yourself, and all others! -78LESSON SEVENTEEN: WHAT TO DO NOW! "If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he built his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. " -Ralph Waldo Emerson...

...a bener book. preach a bener sermon. or make a bener mouse,trap than his neighbor. though he build his house in the woods. the world will make a beaten path to his door." Emerson was a talented writer. but we believe his business insight was fundamentally flawed. If you...

...best in the world at it. If a man makes the best mousetraps in the world, although he may live deep in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. (Anon.) If you are the best at anything, though it is one of a thousand different occupations, you...

...(Summer 1991). Eilene Zimmerman, "Quota Busters," Sales & Marketing Management (January 2001): 59-63. 22. '"If a man can write a better book, preach a better...make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he built his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." Attributed to Ralph Waldo...

...manufacturer says : " If you make a good pin, you will earn more money than if you make a bad steam engine." " If a man can write a better book, preach a better...sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor," says Emerson, " though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a path to his door." Never...

...writer of a "better book" or the "maker of a better mousetrap than their neighbor," to whose door, "though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path. "The saying is attributed to Emerson (in Sarah SBYule and Mary S. Keene, Borrowings [1889]), and he...

...Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, "If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." This hasn't...

...Originality" (1876) 50 Hitch your wagon to a star. Quoted in Moncare D. Conway, The Golden Hour (1862) 51 th thee in thrall!" demesne; 15 Heard melodies Quoted in Decatur (111.) Daily Republican, 19 May 1882. Robert Andrews notes in Famous Lines: "Ascribed...

...First Unitarian Church in Oakland, California. Several observations by Emerson in this volume included, "If a man can write a better book, preach a better...woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." In 1912, one of Borrowings' compilers — Sarah SB Yule — said she'd jotted this sentence in her...