Walt Disney Quotes

To All Who Come to This Happy Place, Welcome!

Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts which have created America...with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world."

Walt Disney's speach on opening day of Disneyland

I hope we never lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

WALT DISNEY

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

WALT DISNEY

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

WALT DISNEY

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

WALT DISNEY

There really is no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious.

WALT DISNEY

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.

WALT DISNEY

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

WALT DISNEY

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.

WALT DISNEY

Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

WALT DISNEY

When we consider a project, we really study it - not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.

WALT DISNEY

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

WALT DISNEY

A man should never neglect his family for business.

WALT DISNEY

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

WALT DISNEY

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.

WALT DISNEY

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main ... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

WALT DISNEY

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

WALT DISNEY

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

WALT DISNEY

Epcot Dedication:

To all to come to this Place of Joy, Hope and Friendship, Welcome. EPCOT is inspired by Walt Disney's creative vision. Here, human achievements are celebrated through imagination, wonders of enterprise and concepts of a future that promises new and exciting benefits for all. May EPCOT Center entertain, inform and inspire and, above all, may it instill a new sense of belief and pride in man's ability to shape a world that offers hope to people everywhere.

Cardon Walker
October 1, 1982

I hope we never lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

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

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

There really is no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious.

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.

When we consider a project, we really study it - not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main ... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

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

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

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