Walt Disney

Disney was born in 1901 in Chicago and was an avid artist from an early age. At 16, he enlisted in the Red Cross and served in World War I, driving an ambulance that he customized with his own cartoon drawings. Upon his return, he worked as an advertising cartoonist in Kansas City, Missouri

There are many successful entrepreneurs, which have achieved unimaginable results in their companies or firms, as in the case of this famous American character Walter Elias Disney, who was born in Chicago Illinois in the year 1901. Walt Disney’s story begins when he founded the company with his brother Roy Disney, the company would be named The Walt Disney Company.

Walt Disney’s childhood was typical of a farmer, as his father Elias Disney was dedicated to these tasks, he was the son number 4 of 5, for being one of the smallest did not help much in the work, so devoting their time to play and draw.

He was a train enthusiast, he loved him. But then his father became ill, so had to sell the farm and travel to Kansas, where the Disney brothers had to work. Walt was very difficult to leave the farm and live in the city, but had to get used to. He began to work delivering newspapers, but this job required him to get up early, so be studying the performance was not very good, because sometimes he fell asleep.

When Walt was 15 he got a job selling newspapers on the train and some goodies, but as he was more interested in the train, often robbed of their goods. He then enlisted in the Red Cross and was sent to France, where ambulances management and also learned the habit of smoking, the same that would lead to death.

At the end of World War II, Walt went back to America, and began to study a career and began working on PESEM-Rubin Art Studio, where he performed newspaper drawings. There he gained experience and decided to put his own company, then founded the Laugh-O-Gram Films, Inc., a company in which he began to create his characters, in which it decided to create an ambitious project in the movie Alice in Wonderland `s But when making the company declared bankruptcy and the employees had to go, Walt Disney decided to go to Hollywood, so he sold his camera and took only his film Alice’s Wonderland, arriving at Los Angeles had only $ 40. I wanted to become a director and toured businesses and gave no chance.

Unable to find employment again tried to animation in a garage in his uncle Robert in Los Angeles, sending your film to the company Margaret Winkler who liked and continued to produce.

Every effort was Walt Disney began to be rewarded and in 1928 created his most famous character Mickey Mouse, which launched him to fame. Henceforth began many challenges to Walt Disney, who was a successful entrepreneur.

Since the 1940′s began the idea of ​​founding a Walt Disney theme park, the legends that seeing the ground to buy told a friend and told him to buy the all around this area, and the friend answered no .. it was crazy and Disney just smiled.

What began as a dream is now reality and The Walt Disney Company now has eighteen parks, thirty-nine hotels, eight motion picture studios, eleven cable television channels and one terrestrial ABC.

Disney was one of the most interesting entrepreneurs studier successful, his addiction to cigarettes brought death, he died of lung cancer. Here are some words of Walt Disney:

“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I’ve ever met”

“No sleep for rest, sleep to dream, because dreams are to be fulfilled.”

“Think, Dream, believe and dare.”

“If you have a dream, and believe in it, you run the risk of reality.”