Ingvar Kamprad

Swedish business magnate (1926-2018) · Sweden · Founders · Died at 91

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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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A life in dates

2018Died27 January 20182017“You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good.”In their wordsOctober 2017Quoted in the October 2017 issue of Men’s Health magazine, page 41.Read the whole statement

2014“Most things still remain to be done!”In their words24 June 2014Read the whole statement

2012“Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to.”In their words13 November 2012Quoted by Richard Milne in "Ikea’s fiendishly complex construction," Financial Times, November 13, 2012.Read the whole statement

2007Global Economy PrizeAward1998“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!”In their words1998, quoted in The IKEA Story by Bertil Torekull.Read the whole statement

1976“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.”In their words"The Testament of a Furniture Dealer" (1976).Read the whole statement

1926Born30 March 1926

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You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good.
Oct 2017, Quoted in the October 2017 issue of Men’s Health magazine, page 41., Own words
Most things still remain to be done!
Jun 24, 2014, Own words
Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to.
Nov 13, 2012, Quoted by Richard Milne in "Ikea’s fiendishly complex construction," Financial Times, November 13, 2012., Own words

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Awards

Global Economy Prize2007

International Swede of the Year

Knight 1st class of the Order of Vasa

Order of Friendship

Honorary Doctorate of Lund University

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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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Sweden

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