By Mr. Ingvar Kamprad
A job must never be just a meal ticket. Without enthusiasm for your work, one third of your life goes down the drain and can never be compensated for.
Development is not always equal to success. It depends on you, as leader and a responsible person, to make development progressive.
To design a desk which costs $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer. But to design a functional and good desk which costs $50 can be done only by the best. Expensive solutions to problems are often signs of mediocrity.
Bureaucracy complicates and paralyses. While there must be rules, the more difficult and complicated these are, the more difficult they will be to observe.
By refusing to accept a pattern just because it is established, one gets further, not only in big problems but also in small daily ones. A healthy appetite for experimenting will lead one forward all the time. “Why” remains an important word.
To make mistakes is the privilege of the active person – the one who is able to start from the beginning again and put things straight. The fear of making mistake is the root of bureaucracy and the enemy of all evolution. No decision can claim to be the only right one.
It is the drive behind the decision, which determines its correctness.
To win does not always imply that someone must lose. The most splendid victories are those where there are no losers.
The ambition to develop oneself as a human being and in one’s work must remain high.
The keyword is humbleness. Will and strength without humbleness often lead to conflict.
Time is your most important asset. Split your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few as possible to futilities.
Must things still remain to be done?
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