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

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

You can't just let nature run wild.

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

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Mickey Mouse is, to be, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.Mickey Mouse is, to be, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

All cartoon characters and cables must be exaggerated, caricature. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. 

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.

I believe in being an innovator.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

We believe in your idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

I don't like to repeat success, I like to go on to other things.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Laughter is America's most important export.

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

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

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

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

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

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

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

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

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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