Walt Disney Quotes

Some dream it, some do it, some do both.

~ Walt Disney Company

It was creative, not financial success that thrilled Walt.

~ Leslie Le Mon

Fantasyland was designed as a home for some of the classic characters [from those films], and as a symbol of the magic, hope and beauty of the human imagination.

~ Leslie Le Mon

It's fun to do the impossible Walt DisneyI always dream BIG!

~ Steve William Laible

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

~ Walt Disney Company

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman’s family.

~ Chris Bohjalian

Walt reorganized the fickleness of audiences and the challenge of always providing something new. For me, this great entrepreneurial adventure was an exposure to 'yes if' consulting as a more useful format than 'no because'...'Yes if' was the language of an enabler, pointing to what needed to be done to make the possible plausible. Walt liked this language. 'No because' is the language of a deal killer. 'Yes if' is the approach of a deal maker. Creative people thrive on 'yes if'.

~ Harrison Price

In the twenty-first century, the visions of J.C. Nichols and Walt Disney have come full circle and joined. “Neighborhoods” are increasingly “developments,” corporate theme parks. But corporations aren’t interested in the messy ebb and flow of humanity. They want stability and predictable rates of return. And although racial discrimination is no longer a stated policy for real estate brokers and developers, racial and social homogeneity are still firmly embedded in America’s collective idea of stability; that’s what our new landlords are thinking even if they are not saying it. (138)

~ Tanner Colby

Walt also had a humorous sign posted outside the mansion, recruiting ghosts who wanted to enjoy 'active retirement' in the country club atmosphere' of this 'fashionable address'. Interested ghosts were to write to the 'Ghost Relations Dept. Disneyland,' and were told,'Do not apply in person.

~ Leslie Le Mon

Most castles in the air are never built. But Walt Disney's was.

~ Eve Zibart

To paraphrase the famous Walt saying, Cast Members are there to work so Guests can play.

~ Leslie Le Mon