
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.”
Misattributed
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 216
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.”
Misattributed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9u-oS3Vw04
As quoted in Perfecting Ourselves : Coordinating Body, Mind, and Spirit (2002) by Aaron Hoopes, p. 64
Posthumous publications
“Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.”
citation needed
“You have to come to your closed doors before you’ll ever get to your open doors.”
Source: I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life
Ben Yamen's Song of Geometry (1853)
Context: The Key! it is of wonderful construction, with its infinity of combination, and its unlimited capacity to fit every lock. … it is the great master-key which unlocks every door of knowledge and without which no discovery which deserves the name — which is law, and not isolated fact — has been or ever can be made. Fascinated by its symmetry the geometer may at times have been too exclusively engrossed with his science, forgetful of its applications; he may have exalted it into his idol and worshipped it; he may have degraded it into his toy... when he should have been hard at work with it, using it for the benefit of mankind and the glory of his Creator.
1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)