Walt Disney's Drive for Domination
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What I learned from rereading Walt Disney: The Trium...
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Apr 22 2024 1h 47m
Chapter 1 59 sec
Disney’s key traits were raw ingenuity combined with sadistic determinationChapter 2 7 mins
I had spent a lifetime with a frustrated, and often unemployed man, who hated anybody who was successfulChapter 3 10 mins
Maybe the most important thing anyone ever said to him: You’re crazy to be a professor she told Ted. What you really want to do is draw. Ted’s notebooks were always filled with these fabulous animals. So I set to work diverting him. Here was a man who could draw such pictures. He should earn a living doing thatChapter 4 1 min
A quote from Edwin Land that would apply to Walt Disney too: My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can doChapter 5 4 mins
Walt Disney seldom dabbled. Everyone who knew him remarked on his intensity; when something intrigued him, he focused himself entirely as if it were the only thing that matteredChapter 6 1 min
I'm going to sit tight. I have the greatest opportunity I've ever had, and I'm in it for everythingChapter 7 59 sec
You have to take the hard knocks with the good breaks in lifeChapter 8 2 mins
Nothing wrong with my aim, just gotta change the target. Jay ZChapter 9 7 mins
He sincerely wanted to be counted among the best in his craftChapter 10 3 mins
He didn't want to just be another animation producer. He wanted to be the king of animation. Disney believed that quality was his only real advantageChapter 11 1 min
Walt Disney wanted domination. Domination that would make his position unassailableChapter 12 59 sec
Disney was always trying to make something he could be proud ofChapter 13 24 mins
We have a habit of divine discontent with our performance. It is an antidote to smugnessChapter 14 1 min
I don’t want to be relagated to the cartoon medium. We have worlds to conquer hereChapter 15 5 mins
Advice Henry Ford gave Walt Disney about selling his company: If you sell any of it you should sell all of itChapter 16 1 min
He kept a slogan pasted inside of his hat: You can’t top pigs with pigs. (A reminder that we have to keep blazing new trails.)Chapter 17 7 mins
Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard SnowChapter 18 14 mins
It is the detail. If we lose the detail, we lose it all