Will Harvey
Will Harvey
Will Harveyis a software developer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. At the age of 15 he wrote Music Construction Setfor the Apple II, the first commercial sheet music processor for home computers. Music Construction Set was ported to other systems by its publisher, Electronic Arts. He wrote two games for the Apple IIgs: Zany Golfand The Immortal. Harvey founded two consumer virtual world Internet companies: IMVU, an instant messaging company, and There, Inc., an MMOG company...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.
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.
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.
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.
What I think is that we should be helping people so they can reach an even greater potential.
We're good at what we do because we're a family - this is in our bloody DNA; this is what we do.
There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.
There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.
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.
That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.
People don't just come to work to make money; they need satisfaction.
People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn't even come into play!
Making decisions quickly isn't for everyone, and I've had my disasters, but overall, it works for me.
Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.