Ingvar Kamprad

thumb|Ingvar Kamprad (2010) Ingvar Feodor Kamprad (born March 30, 1926 - January 27, 2018) was a Swedish business magnate. He is the founder of IKEA, a Swedish retail company specialising in furniture. Quotes 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). 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. 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. Most things still remain to be done! Quoted by Martin Enthed in "", June 24, 2014. 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. Quoted in the October 2017 issue of Men’s Health magazine, page 41. External links Category:1926 births Category:2018 deaths Category:Businesspeople from Sweden