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

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.

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.

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.

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.

Let us be loving, be kind, be simple, be silly, be happy.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.

Heavy is the root of light.

Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.