 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.  Medical Bulletin - Page 22by Colorado. University. School of medicine, University of Colorado - 1906Full view - About this book
 | John Izod, R. W. Kilborn, Matthew Hibberd - Art - 2000 - 244 pages
...Emerson: 'It a man produce a better documentary ... or make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door'. If Kmerson's original comment about a better book and mousetrap ever held true in the 19th century,... | |
 | Colin V. Sowter - Business & Economics - 2000 - 52 pages
...MOUSETRAPS' DO NOT WORK; 'BETTER DOORS' DO! If a man ... 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. (Attributed to RW Emerson by SSB Yule in her Borrowings, 1889, emphasis added) This statement is often... | |
 | Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor, Brian Uzzi - Business & Economics - 2000 - 296 pages
...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. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1 855) In Chapter 6, we argued that differences in the network of contacts that... | |
 | Neil Baldwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 548 pages
...Edison loved best: "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." Toward the end of the century, William Graham Sumner revisited this ideological dilemma and cast it... | |
 | Boris Pleskovic, Nicholas Stern - Political Science - 2001 - 450 pages
...Consider the simple adage, "If a man can . . . 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." 22 Can strategic complementarities matter even here? From the perspective of the literature reviewed... | |
 | Sam Bass Warner - Business & Economics - 2001 - 268 pages
...better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap, than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.This version, fittingly enough in these days of Boston versus Silicon Valley competition, seems... | |
 | Lucille Gulliver - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 268 pages
...once said, "If a man can write a better book or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, although he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten track to his door." This was true of Daniel Boone. However much he might prefer solitude and the woods... | |
 | Mervyn A. Warren - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 230 pages
...or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, King Speaks at Oakwood College 775 even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to this door." This will become increasingly true. And so we must set out to do a job and to do it well.... | |
 | Marcia Yudkin - Business & Economics - 2001 - 356 pages
...Promotions for Your Web Site Jouild a better mousetrap than your neighbor and though you build your house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to your door. " I don't believe this was true even when Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke this adage in the ninetenth... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - History - 2007 - 344 pages
...invention." — "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the...woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." — Emerson "Inventors and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning... | |
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