Business Quotes

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Mickey Mouse 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.

Bring a timer.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.