Kamprad Ikea Quotes

#1. I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

Lamar S. Smith

#2. Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#5. Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

Chris Rock

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#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.

Ingvar Kamprad

#8. But Mary-Lynnette was thinking. Of course she'd like to find somebody who would accept her completely, who would share everything with her.

L.J.Smith

#9. I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can. Red Bull is a platform to celebrate all that humans are capable of accomplishing. They built a lifestyle movement, a brand that sold this product.

Nick Woodman

#10. We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.

Walter Munk

#11. Deeds done in the dark can never remain unexposed.

Michelle Griep

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#13. 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.

Ingvar Kamprad

#14. 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

Ingvar Kamprad

#15. A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

Alan Furst

#16. 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.

Ingvar Kamprad

#17. I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.

Lydia Lunch

#18. Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.

Stephen Richards

#19. It is easy to be a good parent to a good child, but what makes a good parent, is dealing and being there for a difficult child, that is a real good parent!

Beta Metani'Marashi

#20. We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

Ingvar Kamprad

#21. When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#22. 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.

Ingvar Kamprad

#23. Prof's ability makes mine look like a piece of rice. And not even a cooked one.

Brandon Sanderson