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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.

You can't just let nature run wild.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

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.

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

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

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

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.