Top 35 Walt Disney Quotes

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making 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.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

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.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Laughter is America’s most important export.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

You can’t just let nature run wild.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.