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
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.
I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.
Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.
To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.
Fear too often spells failure.
We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.
EPCOT will be an experimental prototype community of tomorrow that will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.
Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.
Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.
If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.