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
I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.
My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.
The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.
Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
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.
We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
The small amount of these activities shown in our films essentially depict villains or characterize these activities as unwholesome.
The workers in mainland China and inside the Disney park, their salaries are very low and the work days are very long,
Teenagers have to discover the product. (Then) they tell their friends and it grows through a grass roots marketing effort
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You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
Girls bored me, they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.