Build A Better Mousetrap And The World Will Beat A Path To Your Door

“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  1. What does “build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” even mean?

    Comment by Kaitlyn — January 12, 2009 @ 7:04 am

  2. Innovation, even of an incremental kind, yields guaranteed success.

    Comment by sfj — February 19, 2009 @ 10:40 am

  3. Sounds nice but Ralph old boy LIED…….
    Anybody that has ever ‘invented a new mouse trap’ knows he lied…you have to get out and sell it

    Comment by Floyd Dormire — June 9, 2009 @ 3:52 pm

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