Walt Disney had a lifelong passion for dreaming up imaginative projects and bringing them to life. He believed that curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy were essential to accomplishing great things. Disney was told that Disneyland would fail, but he had confidence in his vision and enjoyed the process of creation. He saw Disneyland as a constantly evolving project and a community that would never be complete. Disney's dream was to share his love of imagination and wilderness with the world.

1. Walt Disney’s Life

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

3. “The era we are living
in today is a dream of
coming true.”

4. “It's something that will never be finished,”
Disney once said of Disneyland. “Something
that I can keep developing and adding to.”

5. “When we consider a
project, we really study it
– not just the surface idea,
but everything about it,”

6. “Somehow I can’t
believe there are
any heights that
can’t be scaled by a
man who knows the
secret of making
dreams come true,”

7. “This special secret, it
seems to me, can be
summarized in four C’s.
They are Curiosity,
Confidence, Courage, and
Constancy and the
greatest of these is
Confidence.”

8. “When you believe a thing, believe it all
the way, implicitly and unquestionably.”

9. “When we get into a new project, we believe in it all the way. We
have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard
to do the best possible job.”

10. “We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money…we did it
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.”

11. “And they all got into it and we were
doing it because we loved to do it.”

12. “Disneyland is a work of love.”

13. “When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impression that it was a
get-rich-quick thing, but they didn’t realize that behind Disneyland was this
great organization that I built here at the Studio,” said Disney.

14. “When you’re curious, you find lots of
interesting things to do,” Disney said.
“And one thing it takes to accomplish
something is courage.”

15. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

16. “Think beyond your lifetime, if you
want to do something truly great.”

17. “It will be a community of
tomorrow that will never be
completed, but will always
be introducing and testing
and demonstrating new
materials and systems.”

18. “I don't like formal gardens,” said Disney. “I like wild
nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."

19. ‘Well,’ I said, ‘sometimes I
think of myself as a little
bee. I go from one area of
the studio to another, and
gather pollen, and sort of
stimulate everybody.’ I
guess that’s the job I do.”

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

21. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

22. “Always remember that this
whole thing was started
with a dream and a mouse.”

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

24. “All the adversity I've had
in my life, all my troubles
and obstacles, have
strengthened me,”

25. “You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in
the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you,”

26. “The way to get started is to
quit talking and begin doing.”

27. “I always like to look on the
optimistic side of life, but I am
realistic enough to know that
life is a complex matter.”
Thank You Very Much
Sompong Yusoontorn