Ingvar Kamprad
Ingvar Kamprad
Ingvar Feodor Kamprad; born 30 March 1926) is a Swedish business magnate. He is the founder of IKEA, a Swedish retail company specialising in furniture...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 March 1926
CityAlmhult, Sweden
CountrySweden
Ingvar Kamprad quotes about
cheap follow mind people proud rules
People say I am cheap and I don't mind if they do. But I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
bought buy garden great houses seeds success year
I bought seeds for the garden and had great success with it, going around to all the houses in my village. After that year I could buy myself my first bicycle.
follow
I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
running ikea long
What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.
luxury people example
How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury?
mistake making-mistakes privilege
Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
needs reserves
Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
russia ikea groups
We have to still develop the IKEA group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
mistake sleep financial-investment
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
mistake ikea people
Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.
business thinking entrepreneur
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.
goal way reaching
Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.
independent home management
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home
impossible dictionary has-beens
The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,