Walt Disney

Disney entertainment empire

Modern influential 102 sayings

Sayings by Walt Disney

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

1956 — Interview with The Saturday Evening Post
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

I think I've created the best little mouse in the world.

1933 — Interview
Controversial Unverifiable

Women are not as reliable. They don't take orders. They don't take direction.

1940s — Reported statement, as cited in 'The Disney Songbook'
Controversial Unverifiable

We are not making films for children, we are making films for the child in all of us, whether we are six or sixty.

1950s — Interview
Controversial Unverifiable

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

1950s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

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

1950s — Interview
Controversial Confirmed

I believe in being an innovator.

1960s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

Get a good idea, and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

1950s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

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

1960s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

I don't believe in just one thing. I believe in a lot of things.

1960s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

To my mind, it's a great shame to have to grow up.

1950s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

1960s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements but rather with the things we do for others.

1960s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special magic is a combination of four C's. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy.

1960s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

I resent the hell out of the fact that I've been branded as an anti-Semite. I'm not. I've worked with Jews all my life.

1950s — Reported statement, as cited in 'Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination'
Controversial Unverifiable

I was an alcoholic, a womanizer, and a Communist.

1947 — Attributed to Disney during HUAC testimony, often disputed or taken out of context
Controversial Unverifiable

The American people are the greatest people in the world.

1950s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

I refuse to let anyone else tell me what to do.

1960s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it.

1960s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable

I don't believe in the common man. I believe in the uncommon man.

1960s — Reported statement
Controversial Unverifiable