Walt Disney Quotes

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

“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.”

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

“My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.”

“its fun to do the unexpected.”

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

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

“If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.”

“The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others”

“I'm doing this because I want to do it better.”

“Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.”

“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.”

“I never intended to make art.”

“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.”

“Happiness is a state of mind.”

“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

“It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.”

“Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.”

“Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”

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

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

“Any dream is possible, if you have courage.”

“The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.”

“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.”

“I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.”