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Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

Ingvar Kamprad

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Ingvar Kamprad
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 30
Died: 2018
Died: January 27
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad
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Negative
Prove
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Ikea
Mistake
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Wrong
Mediocre
Making
Privilege
Always
Active
Time
Mistakes

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