That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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.
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 the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at their lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.
All of our dreams can come true.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place.