Ingvar Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do. — Ingvar Kamprad

I am very proud to follow the rules of our company. — Ingvar Kamprad

What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us. — Ingvar Kamprad

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA. — Ingvar Kamprad

Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money. — Ingvar Kamprad

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

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

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

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. — Ingvar Kamprad

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary, — Ingvar Kamprad

Ingvar was on his back, moaning quietly. The pillow under his head, his jacket and the blanket across him, and the mattress under him were all totally sodden as perspiration poured out of his body in a flood. Jesper looked at them wildly. "He's going to die, isn't he?" It was Edvin who slapped him on the back, almost sending him sprawling across the sweat-soaked figure on the mattress. "No, you idiot!" he said happily. "He's going to live. The fever's broken! — John Flanagan

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

Everything we earn we need as a reserve. — Ingvar Kamprad

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

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

Technology has its place....We respect and honor the past, but we know we can't completely re-create it, nor do we want to do so. The goal of our household, our community, is to live with honor in this word, and to do so we've surrounded ourselves with the trappings of this community, its symbols of honor and purpose, to remind ourselves and to make it easier to keep our faith. But we can't give up everything of the present, neither the Nets nor, for example, modern medicine, not if we're to honor ourselves by taking proper care of our families and our children. We're creating a should-have-been, not what actually was.

--Ingvar Boneless, p. 246 of The Jazz — Melissa Scott

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction. — Ingvar Kamprad

Hal: " ... Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us."
"I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded."
"Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in. — John Flanagan

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation. — Ingvar Kamprad

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

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

How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury? — Ingvar Kamprad

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

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

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels. — Ingvar Kamprad

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

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

Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way. — Ingvar Kamprad