Quotes by Walt Disney

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

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

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

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

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.