Jim Korkis > Quotes

“The disadvantage to humor, and where a good leader must be vigilant, is that everyone has a different sense of humor and humor can be used as a weapon to humiliate others.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's the Leader of the Club?: Walt Disney's Leadership Lessons

“I’ve always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it because you never know what will happen,” stated Walt.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's the Leader of the Club?: Walt Disney's Leadership Lessons

“The secret of Disney is doing things you don't need and doing them well, and then you realize you needed them all along/”
― jim korkis, More Secret Stories of Disneyland: More Trivia Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes

“It was speculated that a car manufacturing company like Ford, or a space or aircraft project like NASA’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory Project, or millionaires like the Rockefellers or Howard Hughes were secretly purchasing the land. One account even suggested the Mafia was buying land to launder ill-gotten gains or dump bodies in the swamps. However,”
― Jim Korkis, Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“In 1961, at age seventy, standing just four feet ten inches tall and weighing ninety-eight pounds, Kline became Disneyland’s first Tinker Bell.”
― Jim Korkis, The Revised Vault of Walt: Unofficial Disney Stories Never Told

“Create an atmosphere without fear and encourage laughter. Of course, there will be consequences for wrong decisions, but people shouldn’t be so apprehensive that they are fearful to make any decision. Humor can help keep things in perspective.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's the Leader of the Club?: Walt Disney's Leadership Lessons

“It’s what you do with what you got.”
― Jim Korkis, The Revised Vault of Walt: Unofficial Disney Stories Never Told

“Song of the South was not a malicious attempt to reinforce the foolish stereotype of the inferiority of the black race, but rather an attempt to show that children of all races and different social statuses could play together as friends, learn important moral lessons from stories, and survive times of trouble by finding a place to laugh.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's Afraid of the Song of the South

“One Disney “urban myth” is that in the event of a hurricane, the castle can be dismantled. That is untrue. The main building has an internal grid of steel framing, secured to a concrete foundation. The turrets and towers also have internal steel framing and were lifted by crane, then bolted permanently to the main structure.”
― Jim Korkis, Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“Walt Disney has been described as an innovator, which means he took things that already existed and re-combined them to create something new.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's the Leader of the Club?: Walt Disney's Leadership Lessons

“Would Walt Do?”—at”
― Jim Korkis, Who's the Leader of the Club?: Walt Disney's Leadership Lessons

“A leader takes things personally. A manager sees things as “just business”.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's the Leader of the Club?: Walt Disney's Leadership Lessons

“The leader sets the tone for his followers. If something goes wrong and the leader acts worried or angry, then everyone picks up on that attitude and it spirals larger and larger.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's the Leader of the Club?: Walt Disney's Leadership Lessons

“Horizons opened exactly one year after Epcot Center opened. Amusingly, the phrase in the attraction—“If we can dream it, we can do it”—that is often falsely credited to Walt Disney was in reality the creation of Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald, who modeled for the Audio-Animatronic “young man” character with the solo submarine.”
― Jim Korkis, Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“To help cement the friendship between Japan and Disney, Emperor Hirohito personally presented to Roy O. Disney, for the dedication of the Magic Kingdom, a stone Japanese lantern known as a Toro to light the way to success and happiness.”
― Jim Korkis, Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“More than eight hundred species of plants from more than forty nations are represented throughout Disneyland resort. It includes about 17,000 trees and 100,000 shrubs. Trees range in size from one-foot tall dwarf spruce in Fantasyland's Storybook Land to 80-foot high eucalyptus trees in Adventureland.”
― Jim Korkis, More Secret Stories of Disneyland: More Trivia Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes

“At the dedication, Walt’s older brother Roy O. Disney was asked by reporters why a grandfather had felt the obligation to tackle this impossible project at this point in his life. He told them: I didn’t want to have to explain to Walt when I saw him again why the dream didn’t come true. Later, Roy spent time in a boat on the Seven Seas Lagoon in front of the Magic Kingdom and when asked why he wasn’t in the park to handle all the media attention, he said: Today is my brother’s day. I want them to remember my brother today.”
― Jim Korkis, MORE Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: More Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“The sign on Pooh Corner states "Critter Country est. 1889" as a reference to the debut of Critter Country in 1989.”
― Jim Korkis, More Secret Stories of Disneyland: More Trivia Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes

“The Tri-Circle-D Ranch at the Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground at Walt Disney World is now the home for the famous Dragon Calliope. It can be viewed by guests and it is free to do so. It is even rigged so that by pushing a button, it briefly plays a tune.”
― Jim Korkis, Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“Except for special events open to the public, tours of Gamble Place are arranged by appointment only through the Daytona Beach Museum of Arts and Sciences.”
― Jim Korkis, MORE Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: More Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“I am constantly reminded that most organizational issues stem from integrity concerns.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's the Leader of the Club?: Walt Disney's Leadership Lessons

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but no one is entitled to make up their own facts, especially when they conflict with the actual facts.”
― Jim Korkis, Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“Maybe it's not to much to hope that the Disney Company might one day get over its self-imposed fears and finally find its own Laughing Place.
-Floyd Norman
Disney Legend
June 2012”
― Jim Korkis, Who's Afraid of the Song of the South? And Other Forbidden Disney Stories

“The Disney trademark is all over it: the businesslike use of fantasy, the no-nonsense approach to nonsense.”
― Jim Korkis, Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“I’m a storyteller. Of all the things I’ve ever done, I’d like to be remembered as a storyteller.”
― Jim Korkis, The Revised Vault of Walt: Unofficial Disney Stories Never Told

“Walt was also at times a mentor leader, developing new talent and assigning them to projects that stretched them professionally.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's the Leader of the Club?: Walt Disney's Leadership Lessons

“The Carousel of Progress was a physical representation of Walt’s personal philosophy that people, despite their foibles, were basically decent, and that life was good in any era and would only keep getting better.”
― Jim Korkis, The Revised Vault of Walt: Unofficial Disney Stories Never Told

“hibernation,”
― Jim Korkis, Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“The term kugel is from the German word meaning ball or sphere.”
― Jim Korkis, EXTRA Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Extra Things You Never Knew You Never Knew

“As the character of Uncle Remus says in the movie: 'You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.”
― Jim Korkis, Who's Afraid of the Song of the South? And Other Forbidden Disney Stories