<P> "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" is a phrase attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the late nineteenth century . The phrase is actually a misquotation of the statement: </P> <P> If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard - beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods . </P> <P> According to some sources, the current phrasing of the quotation didn't appear until 7 years after Emerson died . Thus, in 1889, Emerson was credited with having said </P>

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