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Ingvar Kamprad
said
You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good.
— Quoted in the October 2017 issue of Men’s Health magazine, page 41.
Ingvar Kamprad
Swedish business magnate (1926-2018)
- Fame63.0
- Momentum3.1
- Sweden rank#163
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- Fame63.0
- Momentum3.1
- Sweden rank#163
- Business Professionals rank#122
- Wikipedia24.2K
Lived 1926–2018, aged 92Sweden
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Updated 2026-06-25
He built the world's largest furniture seller from a mail-order operation he started at seventeen, then lived frugally enough that neighbors mistook him for just another retiree.
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Feodor Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943 at age seventeen in Sweden. Over three decades he grew the mail-order business into a multinational retail empire that by 2008 had become the world's largest furniture seller. In 1976 he moved to Switzerland with his Swiss wife, remaining there until her death in 2011. He returned to Småland in 2014, closing the circle on a career that had reshaped how middle-class households furnish their lives.
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Ingvar Kamprad
said
Most things still remain to be done!
— Quoted by Martin Enthed in "", June 24, 2014.
Ingvar Kamprad
said
Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to.
— Quoted by Richard Milne in "Ikea’s fiendishly complex construction," Financial Times, November 13, 2012.
Ingvar Kamprad
said
We still have a long way to go—or as I have written so many times, and said at the end of hundreds of speeches: We are just at the beginning. A glorious future!
— 1998, quoted in The IKEA Story by Bertil Torekull.
Ingvar Kamprad
said
Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
— "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer" (1976).
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