Ingvar Kamprad Quotes
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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.
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
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Most things still remain to be done!
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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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!
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to.
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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.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.