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Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.

— Ingvar Kamprad The Testament of a Furniture Dealer (1976)

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Nobody can guarantee a company or a concept of eternal life, but no one can accuse me of not having tried to.

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.

Most things still remain to be done!

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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