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
assess buy knows people shops
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.
areas believer favour fingers govern great heap people possible power stick sticky
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.
greater people
What I think is that we should be helping people so they can reach an even greater potential.
people plenty smarter
There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.
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!
money people
Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.
deal develop great helping mentoring people spent time trying
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.
interest lose people
The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.
dependent develop kids later less people
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.
achieve believe believers common eventually genuinely love people wonderful
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.
successful people the-end-of-the-day
When people talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what reason.
ambition people stuff
Businesses are made by people. We've proven time and time again that you can have wonderful shop, and put a bloke in there who's no good, and he'll stuff it up. Put a good bloke in, and it just turns around like that .
closer people relationship
I get a lot of comments from people that I'm just an ordinary bloke. They immediately feel they have a closer relationship with you; they relate to you.