Walt Disney

Walt Disney

28 quotes

The American animator, producer and entrepreneur Walt Disney is someone whose pithy observations have become part of everyday conversation. Their thinking spans from Work to Business, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. 44 of Walt Disney's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Work, Business, Nature, Money, and Life. A favorite of many readers: "Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

— Walt Disney

Motivational

All Quotes by Walt Disney

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

— Walt Disney

Motivational

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

— Walt Disney

Design

“We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.”

— Walt Disney

Family

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

— Walt Disney

Courage

“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

Life

“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”

— Walt Disney

Movies

“Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.”

— Walt Disney

Work

“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.”

— Walt Disney

Business

“I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.”

— Walt Disney

Dreams

“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.”

— Walt Disney

Life

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

— Walt Disney

Business

“You can't just let nature run wild.”

— Walt Disney

Nature

“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

— Walt Disney

Best

“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”

— Walt Disney

Nature

“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”

— Walt Disney

Business

“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.”

— Walt Disney

Communication

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

— Walt Disney

Gardening

“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.”

— Walt Disney

Funny

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”

— Walt Disney

Communication

“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.”

— Walt Disney

Hope