Ingvar Kamprad

Ingvar Feodor Kamprad (born March 30, 1926 - January 27, 2018) was a Swedish business magnate. He is the founder of IKEA, a Swedish retail company specialising in furniture.

Quotes

• Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
  • "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer" (1976).

• We still have a long way to go—or as I have written so many times, and said at the end of hundreds of speeches: We are just at the beginning. A glorious future!
  • 1998, quoted in The IKEA Story by Bertil Torekull.

• Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to.
  • Quoted by Richard Milne in "Ikea’s fiendishly complex construction," Financial Times, November 13, 2012.

• Most things still remain to be done!
  • Quoted by Martin Enthed in "", June 24, 2014.

• You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
  • Quoted in the October 2017 issue of Men’s Health magazine, page 41.

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