A Quote by Lawrence Block

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Lawrence Block

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Lawrence Block
American - Writer
Born: June 24, 1938

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

George Gobel

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

Julius Lester

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Ronald Reagan

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

Mortimer Zuckerman

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

Glenn Kelman

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 will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.

Jason Kilar

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.

Deval Patrick

You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.

Lanza del Vasto

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

Terry Pratchett

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

Paul Tillich

You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the world to beat a path to our dear. You've got to build a market for your book.