All I can say to you, if you look after your health, eat the right stuff, do enough exercise, keep your mind active, you might be around when you’re 100 having this conversation with someone. – Gerry Harvey
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
The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight. – Gerry Harvey
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I know people like myself where we’ve got resorts, or we’re in the hospitality business, and we just can’t make money because you’re paying someone minimum $42 per hour or something on a Sunday. – Gerry Harvey
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
There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero – practically in the world. – Gerry Harvey
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
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
At the end of the day, the more quality individuals you develop in the community, the better off the community should be. – Gerry Harvey
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
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
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
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
