Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
Disney rejects authority and prefers following ordinary people and teamwork.
In plain terms
He does not claim to know best and values input from regular people and his team.
What can you take from it?
Listen to others and value collaboration over individual authority.

Where it applies

  • management
  • community building
  • policy

Putting it to work

  • gather feedback
  • flatten hierarchy

Questions to consider

  • Do you lead by authority or by consensus?

Another view

Sometimes decisive leadership requires ignoring popular opinion.

More from Walt Disney

  1. I don't make films for children. I make films that children aren't embarrassed to take their parents to.

    Permalink to quote #81
  2. I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park. I want to feel they're in another world.

    Permalink to quote #83
  3. I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

    Permalink to quote #80

Related quotes

  1. You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

    Louis B. MayerLouis B. Mayer quote #2
  2. I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe ... But there is something about building up a comradeship -…

    Edmund HillaryEdmund Hillary quote #5
  3. The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

    Knute RockneKnute Rockne quote #8