Ivar Kreuger Quotes
25 quotes from Ivar Kreuger — Swedish industrialist known as the 'Match King' who controlled 75% of the world's match production and became one of th….
“Three on a match means one will die soon.”
“I have always believed that the best way to predict the future is to create it.”
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”
“In business, the only thing that matters is the bottom line.”
“The greatest risk is not taking one.”
“To succeed, you must first believe that you can.”
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.”
“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.”
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
“To be successful, you must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
“There is plenty of room in this country. The people are hard but they give one a chance. At home everyone talks about his love affairs, but here people discuss their business prospects. That suits me. I can breathe here.”
“He had absolute confidence in his ability to achieve a monopoly, and he was equally sure that he would then be able to repay his huge debt with handsome profits all around.”
“Everything in life is founded on confidence.”
“You can flatter a man so much that you'll be ashamed of yourself, but never enough to make him ashamed of himself.”
“Maybe the greatest financial intelligence of his time — he deemed it his task amid postwar chaos to create a canal between the countries with abundance of capital and those in bitter need of it, until he was crushed in between the icebergs of this frozen world.”
“We discovered exactly what Kreuger owed several banks in Sweden. His position was very definitely not what a careful banker would call a sound one.”
“He is on the most intimate terms with the heads of European Governments. Gentlemen, we are fortunate indeed to be associated with Ivar Kreuger.”
