Gerry Harvey Quotes

I loved retail from the beginning, and I still love it today.

Having some retail experience is key. It really is where the battle is won or lost.

I loved the fact that if you put goods on the floor, you could watch them sell.

I worked at a school supply store as a cashier.

I got two stores, two streetwear stores, at home. Have to tend to those. Play Cloths. Have to tend to that business.

I don't have a problem to say I am a good merchandiser, because I love objects.

I was a salesman just out of college, traveling all over American roads in the cause of selling handbags to stores that would in turn sell them to American women, not unlike my father had done.

I may be the only shark who hasn't been on QVC, but I have learned a lot from those folks about what it takes to get a product on store shelves.

I have learned a ton about inventory, co-packing, wholesaling, end caps. All these concepts are easy to breeze by in what I do for a living or assume that there is a marketing manager or specialist in one of our companies that handles that.

I spend my time being a retailer, not an economist.

I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass.

Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales.

Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

Trying to move the volume of products we're talking about from place to place to get it ultimately into the customer's hands, to price these items, to market these items, I think the retail business is incredibly complex. But if you get it right, it's a beautiful thing.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.