3 Walt Disney Quotes on Finance

Walt Disney quotes on finance

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

124. My biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. Money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million, it took. And we had everything mortgaged, including my family. But we were able to get it open and in the ten or eleven years now we have been pouring more money back in. In other words, like the old farmer, you have to pour it back into the ground if you want it to grow. That's my brother's philosophy and mine, too.

125. My brother called and said that we owed the bank four and one half million dollars. And I began to laugh. And he said, 'What are you laughin' at?' And I said, 'I was just thinking back when we couldn't borrow a thousand dollars.'