Quotes from Walt Disney


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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.


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


You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.


Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.


We allow no geniuses around our Studio.


Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.


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


Disneyland is a show.


We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.


I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.


You reach a point where you don't work for money.


I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.


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


There's nothing funnier than the human animal.


Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.


Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.


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


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.


A man should never neglect his family for business.


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