A Quote by Ronald Reagan

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

Ronald Reagan

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Ronald Reagan
American - President
February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004

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

Lawrence Block

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

Ajit Pai

It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

Steve Ballmer

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

Julius Lester

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

George Gobel

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

Helio Gracie

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

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Margaret Atwood

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Hector Hugh Munro

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

Wendell Berry

Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.

Duncan Long

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

If I was in government and running government, I think I would use the government data, because I wouldn't know where else to look, quite frankly. And if I didn't like that data, I would work hard to make sure it got better and better and better, whether it was at the state or local or federal level.

Steve Ballmer

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.