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.

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.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Most things remain undone. Glorious future!

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA.

The will to succeed should be powerful: The willingness to prepare for success is paramount (KR, 1990)

Your potential is not a trial and error experience. God designed and predetermined you to be a success story.

I am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

If the day did not require an AK then it was good

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep.

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.