Walt Disney: The Most Successful Entrepreneurs

There is a plethora of excellent entrepreneurs in the world. One of the most successful and well-known is Walt Disney. Walter Elias “Walt” Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Hermosa, Illinois. He grew up on a farm in Marceline, Missouri, where his passion for drawing was born. As a child he drew, painted, and sold picture to the other children that he grew up with, neighbors, and family. In 1911, at the age of ten, Walt and his family moved to Kansas city. In Kansas, Walt learned to love trains. His uncle was a train engineer and he worked on trains all the time, and during the summer time Walt had a job selling snacks and newspapers to the travelers. Walt attended High School at the McKinley High School in Chicago, Illinois. He took a drawing and photography class. He was also a part of journalism, and was one of the main contributing cartoonists for the school paper. At the age

Despite the Depression, it produced $1.499 million, and it won a total of eight Oscars. Disney was proud of his success, but that was not enough, he dreamed of making the biggest theme park that was ever seen. He said, “I want it to look like nothing else in the world.” Disney’s $17 million Disneyland theme park opened on July 17, 1955. It came to be known as a place in which people and their families could explore, meet the Disney characters, and ride exciting rides.

A few years after Disneyland opened, Walt Disney had the plan to open a new and even bigger theme park in Florida. It was still in construction when Walt died of lung cancer in 1966. His brother Roy carried on the plans and opened the new theme park under the name of Walt Disneyworld.

Walt Disney was an excellent entrepreneur for a number of reasons. He opened several successful businesses, and his legacy still carries on today with a number of parks in the process of being built, and many that already