Quotes from Walt Disney
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
- Walt Disney
Laughter is America's most important export.
- Walt Disney
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.
- Walt Disney
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
- Walt Disney
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.
- Walt Disney
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.
- Walt Disney
To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.
- Walt Disney
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.
- Walt Disney
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.
- Walt Disney
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.
- Walt Disney
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.
- Walt Disney
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.
- Walt Disney