Walt Disney

“I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.”

“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.”

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

“We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.”

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

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

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

“You reach a point where you don't work for money.”

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

“Disneyland is a show.”

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

“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.”

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

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

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

“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.”

“Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.”

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

“We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.”