If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will…

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I used to love the saying, 'If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.' It sounds great,…

— John Hawkins

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the…

— Alan Greenspan

“... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.”

— Julius Lester

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

— Mortimer Zuckerman

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…

— Jason Kilar

“Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.”

— James D. Carswell

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

— Lee Clow

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

— Ronald Reagan

Building good technology starts with strong curiosity, pursuit of hard problems and exploration, wherever it leads. It isn't necessarily high-minded. Rather, on an important…

— Bryan Johnson

If you build a better mousetrap, regardless of your marketing budget, the world will beat its own path to your door.

— Glenn Kelman

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

— Charles Darwin

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

— George Gobel

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

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished…

— Barbara Ehrenreich