Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Topics

PathDoorWorldBetterBuildWill

When there is a mission before you, you see it from its beginning to its conclusion.

Jesse White

BeginningMissionYouSeeConclusion

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

PowerMistakesLibertyEnemiesGain

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

Michael Caine

ThreeAdmireActorDeadWithout

When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities - how we treat one another when we are not being stupid - what I find is deeply Aboriginal.

John Ralston Saul

LiveTogetherRootsStupidTreat

English football is different to Italy and Spain. You don't have that much time to calm down or relax because, all the time, the ball is on fire.

Alvaro Morata

TimeFireFootballRelaxCalmYou

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

Robert D. Kaplan

SmallHappenSeptemberStuffLeast

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.

Michael Schudson

AdvertisingEnvironmentInformation

I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?

Jayma Mays

LifeFutureMy LifeAmericaLost

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

Donald Trump

StoryOverAnywhereWhoThinksNear

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

Daymond John

BusinessDecisionsBadFirstMade

You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.

Christian Scott

ChanceGenerationGrowYouFindSay

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

Anthony Bourdain

LifeAdventureMy LifeDifficult

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