57 Quotes by Ingvar Kamprad

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

I'm a bit tight with money, but so what? I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask myself if IKEA's customers can afford it... I could regularly travel first class, but having money in abundance doesn't seem like a good reason to waste it.. 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.

Most things remain undone. Glorious future!

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

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

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

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.

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

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