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Ingvar Kamprad

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Ingvar Kamprad

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Also known as Feodor Ingvar Kamprad

Swedish business magnate (1926-2018)

AI overview

Ingvar Kamprad was a Swedish business magnate who founded IKEA, one of the world's largest furniture retailers, and built it into a global company. His business model and design philosophy made affordable home furnishings accessible to millions of people worldwide, fundamentally changing the furniture industry.

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Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • La historia de Ikea
  • Leading by Design
  • Historien om IKEA
  • Historien om IKEA

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4
Total plays
98

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Quotes

  • Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active&mdash;of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.
  • We still have a long way to go&mdash;or as I have written so many times, and said at the end of hundreds of speeches: We are just at the beginning. A glorious future!
  • Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to.
  • Most things still remain to be done!
  • You can do so much in ten minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

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~10 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Feodor Ingvar Kamprad ( Swedish: [ˈɪ̌ŋːvar ˈkǎmːprad] ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire businessman who founded IKEA in 1943 and grew it into a multinational retail company that became the world's largest furniture seller in 2008. He moved to Switzerland with his Swiss wife in 1976, moving back to Småland in 2014 after her death in 2011.

Early life and family

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ingvar Kamprad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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