Ingvar Kamprad
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad 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.
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- Pjätteryd
- Awards
- 🏆 Order of Friendship🏆 Global Economy Prize🏆 International Swede of the Year🏆 Knight 1st class of the Order of Vasa🏆 honorary doctorate of Lund University
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Trending topics shown first"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."
"Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to."
"We still have a long way to go—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!"
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1926
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Birth2018
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