Gerry Harvey
Gerry Harvey
Gerry Harveyis an Australian entrepreneur best known for being the executive chairman of Harvey Norman Holdings, a company which runs Australian retail chain Harvey Norman. He co-founded it with Ian Norman in 1982...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth18 September 1939
CountryAustralia
business confused buying-things
Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.
inspirational couple thinking
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.
perform religion whatever
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.
cent goes number original per revenue
Even if you sell the same number of plasma televisions - if you are selling them for 20 or 30 or 40 per cent of the original price, your revenue goes down, and the profit goes with it.
business earn money running wages
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.
greater people
What I think is that we should be helping people so they can reach an even greater potential.
bloody family good
We're good at what we do because we're a family - this is in our bloody DNA; this is what we do.
business furniture internet zero
There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.
people plenty smarter
There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.
australia business compared cost lack market scale small
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.
nature run
That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.
money people work
People don't just come to work to make money; they need satisfaction.
devalue people properties saying
People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn't even come into play!
decisions quickly works
Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.