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&mdash;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&mdash;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.