Walt Disney Quotes

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

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

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.

Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

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

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

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

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.

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

Ideas come from curiosity.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

nothing is impossible

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

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.

If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.

The most important thing is family.

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.

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

I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

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.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

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

Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.

My business is making people, especially children, happy.

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.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

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

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.

I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.

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

Fear too often spells failure.

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

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.