Walt Disney
My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.Collection: Business
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.Collection: Inspirational
You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.Collection: Powerful
To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.Collection: Drama
Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.Collection: Inspirational
If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the BeastCollection: Years
Anything that has the Disney name to it is something we feel responsible for.Collection: Names
I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.Collection: Thinking
All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.Collection: Country
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.Collection: Lying
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.Collection: Success
Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Teamwork
The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!Collection: Dream
Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the eerie sound of the jungle … with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland.Collection: Flower
The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.Collection: Halloween
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.Collection: Girl
I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.Collection: Thinking
The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.Collection: Simple
Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.Collection: Dream
We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.Collection: Kings
We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.Collection: Determination
Just remember, it all started with a mouse.Collection: Remember
The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.Collection: Dream
The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.Collection: Might
I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.Collection: Mood
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.Collection: Fun
The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.Collection: Character
Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.Collection: Dream
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.Collection: Experiments
No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.Collection: Jobs
It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.Collection: Developing
Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.Collection: Clever
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.Collection: Jobs
Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.Collection: Fun
its fun to do the unexpected.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Inspirational
If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.Collection: Fun
Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.Collection: Firsts
We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: School
I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.Collection: Life
When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.Collection: Organization
Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.Collection: Daughter
I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.Collection: Real
Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education.Collection: Believe
I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.Collection: Dream
Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.Collection: Laughter
Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.Collection: Dog