Walt Disney Quotes
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
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The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.
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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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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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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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There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
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Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
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Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.
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The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
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Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.
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I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.
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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.
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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. In this new dimension, whatever it is, nothing corrodes or gets run down at the heel or gets to look ridiculous like, say, the celluloid collar or the bustle.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.