Walt Disney Quotes about Business

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The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

Walt Disney

Inspirational, Motivational, Business

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

Walt Disney

Life, Beauty, Business

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.56, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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.

Walt Disney

Business, Mean, Groups

"How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

Walt Disney

Movie, Inspiring, Business

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

Walt Disney

Life, Business, Ideas

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

Walt Disney

Inspirational, Business, Goal

"Walt Disney, Magician of the Movies". Book by Bob Thomas, 1966.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

Walt Disney

Business, Organization, Rewards

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

Walt Disney

Success, Business, Educational

[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.

Walt Disney

Brother, Business, Years

"A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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.

Walt Disney

Business, Octopus, Size

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.

Walt Disney

Running, Business, Philosophy

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

Walt Disney

Dream, Business, Littles

"The Stuff Americans Are Made Of : The Seven Cultural Forces that Define Americans - A New Framework for Quality, Productivity, and Profitability". Book by Joshua Hammond and James Morrison, 1996.

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.

Walt Disney

Jobs, Business, Men

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi