If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Saint Jospeh Medical Herald - Page 481913Full view - About this book
| Nancy Wall - 2002 - 132 pages
...to Anita's business in the years which followed. [5 marks] Chapter Five Technical change 'If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, tho' be build a house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.' Ralph... | |
| Drayton Bird - 2002 - 324 pages
...cent of the people who write looking for jobs. Why Some Letters Fail, While Others Succeed 'If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.' Ralph... | |
| J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, Peter Economy - 2002 - 352 pages
...Emercore son said in a lecture that if a person were to build a better mouseconcep trap, "tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."6 Emerson was brilliant, but in this matter, his advice is dangerous. It is only correct in special... | |
| David Littleton Baker - 2003 - 276 pages
...It won't come overnight (you don't gain exceptional skill without time). Ralph Waldo Emerson said. "If a man can write a better book, preach a better...woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." You mother excelled in her artwork, and she was commissioned to paint a picture for the new governor's... | |
| Roderick M Kramer, Barry Staw - 2003 - 382 pages
...INTRODUCTION Emerson once said that "if a man writes a better book, preaches a better sermon, or makes a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds...woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door (cited in Yule & Keene, 1889)." Despite Emerson's optimism about the inherent value of a good idea,... | |
| Paul Russell Smith - 2003 - 328 pages
...don't great products win all the time? Over a hundred years ago Ralph Waldo Emerson suggested that 'If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, though he builds his house in the woods the world will make a beaten path to his door'.... | |
| John Whiteley - 2004 - 196 pages
...people come to you wanting to buy your product or service. Consider this famous quotation: If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. (Attributed... | |
| William D. Bygrave, Andrew Zacharakis - 2004 - 520 pages
...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, its success is often assumed... | |
| Jeffry A. Timmons, Stephen Spinelli, Andrew Zacharakis - 2004 - 255 pages
...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... | |
| Emmanuel Sarmiento - 2004 - 151 pages
...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... | |
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