Ikea Quotes

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 IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers.

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.

We have to still develop the IKEA group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

I'm a bit tight with money, but so what? I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask myself if IKEA's customers can afford it... I could regularly travel first class, but having money in abundance doesn't seem like a good reason to waste it.. 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.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

IKEA is not completely perfect. It irritates me to hear it said that IKEA is the best company in the world. We are going the right way to becoming it but we are not there yet.

What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us.

Ikea products should come free with happy meals.

All the design companies together make 10% of what Ikea makes.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

Want to know the key to a long-lasting relationship? Don't go with your loved one to Ikea. One psychologist says the stress of a visit to the popular furniture store can cause serious friction between couples, whether it's disputes over what to buy or spats while you assemble the items that you bought there.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess

I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Is your relationship strong enough to survive a trip to Ikea? Is their furniture strong enough to survive a relationship? Have you ever bought a bed there?

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.