53 Ikea Quotes

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Famous Ikea Quotes

Ikea products should come free with happy meals. — Steve Fowler

All cheaters shop for Swedish discount furniture. — Joe Gatto

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

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

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA. - Ingvar Kamprad

Waste of resources is a mortal sin at IKEA. — Ingvar Kamprad

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

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things. — Stephen Bayley

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them. — Terence Conran

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. — Julia Child

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in. — Francis Jourdain

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 — Ingvar Kamprad

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. — Ingvar Kamprad

The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets. — Andre Leon Talley

Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing. — Albert Hadley

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. — Mitch Hedberg

There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional. — Yvon Chouinard

Short Ikea Quotes

  • Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction. — Ingvar Kamprad
  • What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us. — Ingvar Kamprad
  • A good horse is the best company in the world. — Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction. — Greg Gutfeld
  • I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA. — Jen Lancaster
  • I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it. — Amber Riley

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More 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. — Ingvar Kamprad

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. — Ingvar Kamprad

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. — Ingvar Kamprad

I was playing an Ikea employee one time and a guy asked me about an armoire, so I ran through the store and he and his lady started running after me, and we end up inside an armoire - literally. — Joe Gatto

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. — Dave Grohl

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. — Juan Williams

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. — Gene Simmons

I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship. — Bill Bailey

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 — Christopher Moore

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? — Greg Gutfeld

My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist through the wood. I don't know what it was made of. Just going there it's like a maze. My mom makes me go. I get lost. It's very stressful. — Jedediah Bila

The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple. — Greg Gutfeld

Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs. — James Arthur

We got to his place and it looked a lot like his personality. Just a bunch of space filler, nothing to really wow you. It looked like he had bought a lot of stuff from IKEA and then decided to refinish it at home. Everything was neat and tidy, but you wouldn't want any of it for yourself. — Chelsea Handler

We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia. — Ingvar Kamprad

One time I went to Berlin and, for some reason, everywhere I was going they had fishbowls. Like a fishbowl by your bed or a fish tank in the bar. They seem obsessed with this IKEA version of nature, which a fishbowl kind of is. They had that going on. I just don't really like having a goldfish by the side of my bed. I feel kind of sad for it, rather than happy. But I thought that was really weird. Maybe they have human fishbowls. — Stephen Malkmus

I've already bought another house in Tangier and the one in Deauville has been for sale for some time. As for Yves's Saint Laurent apartment, it is being sold because he's dead. But I won't be furnishing my home from Ikea. — Pierre Berge

In my home office, I built a custom sit-stand desk to which I connected a big, kidney shaped glass top which I got for cheap at Ikea. Kidney-shaped desk tops are, I think, the most efficient of all possible desk shapes. — William Gurstelle

You know I used to work at Ikea, selling over 7,000 products. Give me a number between 1-7,000 I'll tell you about it. Sorry out of stock, lucky you chose that one. — Milton Jones

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. — Ingvar Kamprad

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