Business Leaders Facts

The founder of IKEA was worth $58 billion. He drove a 1993 Volvo for two decades. He flew economy. He ate at IKEA. He bought his clothes at flea markets because it is a waste to throw out good things. He was once refused entry to his own Businessman of the Year award for arriving by public bus. Ingvar Kamprad lived like he was furnishing his first apartment from the place he built.