Top 33 Mckelvey Quotes
#1. St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup.
Jim McKelvey
#2. This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.
Jim McKelvey
#3. Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.
Jim McKelvey
#4. I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.
Jim McKelvey
#5. It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.
Jim McKelvey
#6. I would lay my cheeks gently against the comfortable cheeks of my pillow, as plump and blooming as the cheeks of babyhood.
Marcel Proust
#7. I have been able to stay clear of the Harry Connick, Jr. prank show but have seen the wrath.
Austin Stowell
#8. When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.
Jim McKelvey
#9. Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong.
Jim McKelvey
#11. At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.
Jim McKelvey
#12. Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.
Jim McKelvey
#13. The gospel makes us extrospective, turning our gaze upward to God in faith and outward to our neighbor in love.
Michael S. Horton
#14. I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.
Jim McKelvey
#15. I want to be part of a church that, as the full-orbed body of Christ, reflects the radiant beauty and attractiveness of God's love, grace, forgiveness, salvation, and hope, for this life and for an eternity of fellowship together with one another as well as with him!
Mark Mittelberg
#17. If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
Jim McKelvey
#18. We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.
Jim McKelvey
#20. The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.
Daryl Hannah
#21. I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.
Jim McKelvey
#22. The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.
Ben Stein
#23. When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.
Jim McKelvey
#25. I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.
Brian Greene
#26. There appear to be many people who chose to go crazy (or become alcoholics, addicts, criminals, suicides) rather than have to bear the pain and ambiguity of a life situation that they have decided that they cannot stand. (98)
Sheldon B. Kopp
#29. Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.
Jim McKelvey
#30. We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We
Priscilla Shirer
#31. I think happiness is overrated, but joy is the key to the thousands of possible moods we can feel. And when we can rest in that joy, then peace is the moment of openness that holds all feeling.
Mark Nepo
#32. I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.
Jim McKelvey
#33. It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.
Jim McKelvey
