People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

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.

Forgiveness is a powerful cure.

We work to become not to acquire.

Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

Make a little space, and get out of your own way.

If someone is expressing everything I am feeling at the moment, it's probably Jon Stewart. I hear him and think, Yeah!

Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.

There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.