The Wild Think

Walt Disney was the stupidest person in the room. So he stood next to his brother Roy (kept Walt positive after their first business went bankrupt). He stood next to Ub Iwerks (he drew a disgusting rodent for Walt). He stood next to Margaret Winkler (the first person to buy a Disney film: Alice in Wonderland), and Lillian Bounds (who not only named this little rat, “Mickey Mouse” but then married Walt). You would think this is all Walt needed. Four people. Now he was drawing and selling movies. But Walt Disney was never in the movie business! The movies were barely breaking even. And it was the middle of The Great Depression. He had to stand next to the smartest person in the room. A guy named Kay Kamen who took a two day bus ride just to talk to Walt when he first saw Mickey Mouse. Because the Walt Disney company was not in the movie business, or story business, or theme park business or Snow White business. Kay Kamen convinced Walt what business he was really in....

This is the story of man who has desire to work with the partnership of great inventor Thomas A. Edison. So , let’s start with his name,His name is Edwin C. Barnes.His discovery did not come about at one sitting.it came little by little,beginning with  BURNING DESIRE  to become a business associate of the great Edison. One of the Chief characteristics of Barnes’ desire was that it was definite.He wanted to work with Edison,not for him.observe,carefully,the description of how he went about translating his DESIRE into reality. When this  DESIRE ,or  impulse of thought ,first flashed into his mind he was in no position to act upon it.Two difficulties stood in his way.He did not know Mr.Edison and he did not have enough money to pay his railroad fare to Orange,New Jersey. These difficulties were sufficient to have discouraged the majority of men from making any attempt to carry out the desire.But his was no ordinary desire! He was so determined to find a way to c...