Quotes from Walt Disney

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.

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 try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Laughter is America's most important export.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

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.

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.

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.

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.

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that's the job I do.