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I believe you should help people.
- Gerry Harvey
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I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online.
- Gerry Harvey
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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
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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
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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.
- Gerry Harvey
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What I think is that we should be helping people so they can reach an even greater potential.
- Gerry Harvey
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You get that air of satisfaction from achievement. It makes you feel good. We are only here for a very short time, and so you're crazy if you don't go out and try to milk it to the greatest extent you can.
- Gerry Harvey
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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
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If you are a manufacturer, an Internet company doesn't suit you. An Internet company does not display your product; it can't upsell. But we do a better job than any of the opposition.
- Gerry Harvey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.
- Gerry Harvey
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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
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You could go out and give a million dollars to a charity tomorrow to help the homeless. You could argue that it is just wasted. They are not putting anything back into the community.
- Gerry Harvey
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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.
- Gerry Harvey
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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
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