Ingvar Kamprad Sayings

#1. Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

Ingvar Kamprad

#2. IKEA is not completely perfect. It irritates me to hear it said that IKEA is the best company in the world. We are going the right way to becoming it but we are not there yet.

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#3. To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

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#4. How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury?

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#5. Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.

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#6. Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

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#7. 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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#8. The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,

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#9. Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

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#10. What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.

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#11. In reading Twain, I often suspect he is having more fun than I am.

Gabrielle Zevin

#12. Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.

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#13. It was our duty to expand. Those who cannot or will not join us are to be pitied. What we want to do, we can do and will do, together. A glorious future!

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#14. Everything we earn we need as a reserve.

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#15. I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don't have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.

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#16. Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.

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#17. Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Alice Walker

#18. Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#19. Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

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#20. Wave it high, and don't trip and fall.

Hayley Wickenheiser

#21. There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.

Walead Beshty

#22. The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers.

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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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#25. Excarnation The process by which religion (and Christianity in particular) is dis-embodied and de-ritualized, turned into a belief system.

James K.A. Smith

#26. From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.

Thomas R. Insel

#27. I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

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#28. Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

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#29. 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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#30. Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#31. People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

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#32. Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

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#33. Home was a secure haven for that - a familial cone of honesty, if you will.

Harlan Coben

#34. I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#35. A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions
being freer and more at ease as human beings.

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#36. I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

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#37. We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

Joe Meno

#38. 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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#39. Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

Paulo Coelho

#40. You can do so much in 10 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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