Ingvar Kamprad Quotes

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead a very simple life. I am not a consumer of anything. And I much prefer sleeping on somebody's floor than in a motel room.

I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

I've always been down-to-earth about money.

I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

I am a woman of simple tastes.

I'm not a girl who's into home comforts and luxury.

I'm not a big car person. I'm not into lots of fancy things.

The key to survival is that when times are good you don't forget where you came from and you don't build crazy overhead just because you can. You live like you are going out of business every day and it makes you healthy.

We don't have to eat the best food to survive: a basic diet will get us through. We wear clothes to stay warm and hide our modesty, they don't need to be the latest designer collection.

I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.

Shaker pieces were not to show off. One was not to waste energy to decorate.