Quotes by Walt Disney, American Businessman

  • We have a problem. ‘Congratulations.’ But it’s a tough problem. ‘Then double congratulations.’
  • Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
  • No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
  • Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
  • When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
  • There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
  • Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
  • There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
  • All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
  • Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
  • Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
  • Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
  • You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
  • You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
  • Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
  • When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.
  • Disneyland is a show.
  • I believe in being an innovator.
  • If you can dream it, you can do it.
  • You can’t just let nature run wild.
  • It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
  • We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
  • Laughter is America’s most important export.
  • There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.
  • You reach a point where you don’t work for money.
  • A man should never neglect his family for business.
  • The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
  • I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
  • When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
  • Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
  • I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
  • All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
  • Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
  • You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
  • There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
  • We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.