Kamprad Quotes

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#2. Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

Hortense Calisher

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

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#5. One of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

Geoffrey Hill

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

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

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#11. 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

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#13. Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Pablo Picasso

#14. 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!

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#16. 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.

Ingvar Kamprad

#17. 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.

Ingvar Kamprad

#18. 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.

Ingvar Kamprad

#19. I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

Mackenzie Davis

#20. You're all we have left of him.

Charlene Carr

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

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

Ingvar Kamprad

#26. I enjoy now doing what I do ... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

Yogi Berra

#27. The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Tillie Olsen

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

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#31. In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

Chuck Todd

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

Ingvar Kamprad

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

Ingvar Kamprad

#34. I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

Ingvar Kamprad

#35. Some people make you laugh a little louder, your smile a little brighter, and your life a little better.

Anonymous

#36. Then answer me this ... how can you know the good without the understanding of evil? How can you know happiness without experiencing the misery, pleasure without the pain? These things are essential parts of life that need to be faced and endured.

Stephanie Hudson

#37. 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.

Ingvar Kamprad

#38. 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

#39. Touch a limit of your understanding and it falls away, to reveal mystery upon mystery.

Marilynne Robinson