Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disneywas an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer he received 22 Academy Awards from 59 nominations and has won more individual Oscars than anyone else. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and one Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth5 December 1901
CityChicago, IL
Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.
I believe that laughter is our greatest export
The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.
Worry is a waste of imagination.
Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.
There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.
It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.
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.
The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.
If we didn't have deadlines, we'd stagnate.
I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it.
Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.
Just make sure you never do less than your best
I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.