Jim Korkis Quotes

#1. Stories are powerful because they speak to both our reason and to our emotion.

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#2. in the Vault of Walt.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Walt Disney has been described as an innovator, which means he took things that already existed and re-combined them to create something new.

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. In 1961, at age seventy, standing just four feet ten inches tall and weighing ninety-eight pounds, Kline became Disneyland's first Tinker Bell.

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#9. So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned to listen."
-Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South

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#10. Walt, as a leader, had envisioned not just what was good for the next year, but what would be needed five or ten years down the line.

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#11. the Vault of Walt.

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#12. He understood the story his audience wanted to hear and how they wanted it told.

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#13. I'm a storyteller. Of all the things I've ever done, I'd like to be remembered as a storyteller.

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#15. A leader takes things personally. A manager sees things as "just business".

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#16. 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.

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#17. It's what you do with what you got.

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#18. Walt Disney was a visionary leader. He had no leadership books or training courses to give him guidance. He operated, as many great leaders do, on instinct and observation.

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#19. 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.

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#20. There is a Japanese proverb that translates as 'the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

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#21. 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

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