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
Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.
Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
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.
In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.