Making decisions quickly isn’t for everyone, and I’ve had my disasters, but overall, it works for me. Gerry Harvey Read Quote
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. Gerry Harvey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Gerry Harvey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight. Gerry Harvey Read Quote
