Quotes from Walt Disney

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

16. I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.

Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

My business is making people, especially children, happy.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.

The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.

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.

I never intended to make art.