Jim McKelvey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup.”

“This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.”

“When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.”

“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.”

“In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.”

“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.”