Jim McKelvey Quotes & Sayings

“I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.”

“It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.”

“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.”

“Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.”

“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.”

“I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.”

“We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible.”