Walt Disney

There's a lot of things that can be done, and I'm not going to let them stop me.

I am a man of the people.

We are still pioneers. We are still breaking new ground.

I'm not a public figure. I'm a private person.

It's a mistake to try to please everybody.

I don't want to be a rich man. I just want to be a happy man.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I am corny, you know? But I think there are just about 140 million people in this country who are just as corny as I am.

Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.

Why be a governor or a senator when you can be king of Disneyland.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio—out he goes.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Money—or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas—may worry me, but it does not excite me.

My biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

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

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that's the job I do.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

I never show a bad cartoon from another studio.