Walt Disney Quotes

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.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Let your heart guide you…it whispers so listen closely.

Happiness is a state of mind.

I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

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

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

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

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there’s some way to do it.

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

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.