Quotes by Walt Disney, American Businessman

  • The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
  • When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
  • I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
  • I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.
  • We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
  • Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
  • Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
  • I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
  • I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.
  • I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
  • I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
  • Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
  • When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
  • Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
  • Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
  • All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
  • I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
  • I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
  • 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.
  • Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.