Walt Disney Quotes

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.

I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

Don't tell me about the problems - I make the problems.

To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.

Every leader is telling a story ... about what he or she values.

Worry is a waste of imagination.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

I believe in being a modivator.

The wonders of nature are endless ...

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?

When you're working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing.

Disneyland is a work of love.

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra ... or a painter's brush and canvas.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

All of our dreams can come true.

People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.

Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.

Anything that has the Disney name to it is something we feel responsible for.

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.

The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.

If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.

Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.

IT'S OUR AMERICA - DO SOMETHING TO PRESERVE ITS' BEAUTY STRENGTH, AND NATURAL
WEALTH

Just remember, it all started with a mouse.

I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.

The inclination of my life ... has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.

Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.

The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

The main quality of leadership ... is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place.

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

You can't just let nature run wild.

All individuals are different and some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life ... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

The worst of us is not without innocence,although buried deeply it might be.

Happiness is a state of mind.

Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.

My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

Ideas come from curiosity.

My business is making people, especially children, happy.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.

I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.