Businessman Quotes

Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

Everything we earn we need as a reserve.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

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.

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

Terrorism is not new to black people.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.