Walt Disney Quotes
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The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
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I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.
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When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
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Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.
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Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.
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Laughter is America's most important export.
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Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.
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Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
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Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.
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If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.
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The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
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Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.
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I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.
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Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.
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Disneyland is a show.
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Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.
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Frying pans! Who knew, right?
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.
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I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.
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Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.