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
If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.
We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
Progress is impossible without change
When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be.
Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.
Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?
The wonders of nature are endless...
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.
Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.