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
What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.
Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.
Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place.
Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. You don't know who your top customers will be five years from now or where you will be in 10 years. You may have a fancy title, but you will always need help from the people around you.
Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.
Believe in yourself, even when no one else does.
If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.
Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave.
The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.
Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by.
A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.