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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 / Entrepreneur
Leadership
Business
Example
Giving
Ikea
Good Good Example Example
Employees
Good Example
Such A Thing
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Needs
Reserves
Earn
Reserve
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Most things remain undone. Glorious future!
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Glorious
Undone
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Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Inspirational
Mistake
Spiritual
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Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Ikea
Sin
Waste
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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Funny
Proud
Reputation
Sarcastic
Stingy
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Ifs
Mind
People
I Am Mind People
Cheap
Mind I Am People
People Say
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I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.
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Rules
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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Car
Flashy
Ikea
Luxury
Stay Strong
Drive
Car People Drive
Stay
Hotels
Car Drive People
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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Including
Little Money
Serve
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Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.
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Goal
Reaching
Way
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What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.
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Running
Ikea
Long
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The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.
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Dictionary
Has Beens
Impossible
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The company will never go to the market. We want to keep strict self-financing.
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Strict
Will Never Company
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Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.
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Common Sense
Ikea
Simplicity
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How can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I am traveling in luxury?
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Example
Luxury
People
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Dying
Not Afraid
Positive Thinking
Turning
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I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.
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Customers
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Normally, I try to get my haircut when I'm in a developing country. Last time, it was in Vietnam.
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Developing
Last Time
Vietnam
Haircut
Normally
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I've paid an awful lot of lawyers to protect what I've built. I can only hope the money was well spent.
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Awful Lot
Lawyers
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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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Billions
China
Groups
Ikea
Russia
Swiss
Develop
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Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Making Mistakes
Mistake
Privilege
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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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Gone
Important
Resources
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We don't need flashy cars, impressive titles, uniforms, or other status symbols. We rely on our strength and our will!
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Car
Flashy
Rely
Symbols
Titles
Uniforms
Status
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A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.
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Being Free
Everyday
Mean
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How the hell can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I travel in luxury? It's a question of good leadership.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Good Leadership
Luxury
Leadership Work Good
Cheaply
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The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.
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Success
Business
Inspiration
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Home
Independent
Management
Ought
Various
Women Are
Almost Everything
Positions
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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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Desks
Office
Rooms
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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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Ikea
Mistake
People
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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 / Entrepreneur
Ambition
Together
Want
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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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Design
Cost
Ikea
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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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Ikea
Perfect
World
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My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it, would make a place for it in his spending, and could afford it.
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Furniture
Spending
Theory
Afford
Attracted
Flat
Wallet
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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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Cutting
Luxury
Simple
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You can do so much in ten 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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Inspirational
Life
Motivational
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I decided that the stock market was not an option for IKEA. I knew that only a long-term perspective could secure our growth plans, and I didn't want IKEA to become dependent on financial institutions.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Decided
Dependent
Financial
Growth
Institutions
Long Term
Perspective
Plans
Secure
Could
Option
Market
Stock
Stock Market
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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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Ikea
Reality
Strong
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I see my task as serving the majority of people. The question is, how do you find out what they want, how best to serve them? My answer is to stay close to ordinary people because, at heart, I am one of them.
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Ordinary
Ordinary People
Serving
Task
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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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Done
Pieces
Sacrifice
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An optimised tax structure gives us the possibility of flexibility in using our assets that have already been taxed in one market. They can be used in new markets for further business development without the additional burden of double taxation.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Assets
Burden
Flexibility
Possibility
Taxation
Additional
Double
Further
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I feel many responsibilities - to our customers, to our employees, to the environment, to the world at large. But I don't want to feel responsible to investors, to outsiders with financial concerns that may differ from those of the welfare of IKEA.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Investors
Outsiders
Welfare
Concerns
Differ
Employees
Responsibilities
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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.
Ingvar Kamprad / Entrepreneur
Class
Giving
Ikea
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