Mousetrap Quotes

Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Variation: 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. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners. View quote
Daymond John
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. View quote
George Gobel
Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing. View quote
Thomas Howes
This is an industry, it's a business. We exist to make money. We exist to put commercials on the air. The programming that is put on between those commercials is simply the bait we put in the mousetrap. View quote
Ted Koppel
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe. (Kurt Vonnegut)
There's always free cheese in a mousetrap. View quote
Jack Gibson
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before. View quote
Kin Hubbard