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I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I'll be amazed in my
As a retailer, we want everyone out there to earn more money, but then if you're running a business, and we can't make money because the wages are too high, that's a problem.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: As a retailer, we want
If you do genuinely care about people and love them a little, eventually you all have this common goal about where you want to go. They see it, and they believe it, and they become believers with you, and you can achieve wonderful things.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: If you do genuinely care
I was talking to Rupert Murdoch the other day at a lunch, and he said, 'Maybe I'll live to 100'. He actually thinks he will live to 100!
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I was talking to Rupert
I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I'm hoping there'll be, if
The internet thing is what I have the greatest problem with. I don't know if anyone in the media gets the internet thing and Harvey Norman. I think they have some strange interpretation of it that bears no resemblance to what actually happens.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: The internet thing is what
The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that - Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: The cost to do business
Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: Making decisions quickly isn't for
I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I went to university for
You've got to open on a Sunday, but at the end of the day, you've just lost a lot of money by opening on the Sunday, so it's very, very difficult to make money when you're paying unskilled people $42 per hour.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: You've got to open on
There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: There are plenty of people
I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I'm a great believer in
We're supposed to be an entrepreneurial company; we're meant to be expanding and looking for opportunities - but the minute you do it, you get your head bashed in.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: We're supposed to be an
I had a trial run with Norman Ross for 21 years, from '61 to '82. I didn't have it in mind to open a chain like Harvey Norman. I opened one shop, but then the next thing you know, I've got another shop and then another shop.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I had a trial run
Some analysts think people come into our shops and then go and buy the product on the Internet, but the manufacturer knows if the customer can't see the product and assess it, they won't buy.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: Some analysts think people come
There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: There is no Internet business
Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, we don't.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: Everybody, be they female, whatever
I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I think the main thing
Kids go to school; we develop them at school. We develop them later on in the workplace so that we get better quality individuals, so that we get less people that are dependent or get into problems.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: Kids go to school; we
People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn't even come into play!
Gerry Harvey Quotes: People are out there saying
The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: The people I know who
The political system is broke. It doesn't matter who the leader is if you are frozen in time and your hands are tied. Social media is so strong that minority groups get a huge say.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: The political system is broke.
I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I try to develop others.
I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I'm probably not your typical
I went to the brink many times.
A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it."
But then you would just keep working.
I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I went to the brink
I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I would think that most
Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: Society might have been better
At the end of the day, the more quality individuals you develop in the community, the better off the community should be.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: At the end of the
I still have a fear about going broke. I always think about it.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: I still have a fear
If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: If I think something is
People don't just come to work to make money; they need satisfaction.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: People don't just come to
For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.
Gerry Harvey Quotes: For me, anyone who is
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