Quotes by Walt Disney

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"You can't just let nature run wild."

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

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

"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"You reach a point where you don't work for 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."

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

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

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

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

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

"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."

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."