Walt Disney Quotes About Business
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The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.
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I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.
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Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.
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[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
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All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
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We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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You reach a point where you don't work for money.
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Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better
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Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
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Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
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A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
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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.
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Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.
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No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.
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My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.
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Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
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