Walt Disney Quotes
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Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
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It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
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No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.
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We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.
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All of our dreams can come true...
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The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.
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I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
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Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.
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Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.
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Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
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Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.
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Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better.
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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.
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She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
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I have a great love of animals and laughter.
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I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
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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.
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Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.