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.

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.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

There is no off position on the genius button.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

We'll be submitting healthcare sometime in early March [2017], mid March, and after that, we're going to come up, and we're doing very well on tax reform.

See the wild birds on the wing, Hear the bells that sweetly ring, When you feel like singin', sing-- Keep a-goin'!

A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited . . . they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.

...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in "Fences"]; I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and in everything else, even her anger towards the end.