We just believe in what we make and we're in a very fortunate position to be able to make stuff regardless of what model that follows.
Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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.
People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
We have to still develop the IKEA group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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.
This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.
I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.
If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. . . . I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.