Jim McKelvey Zitate auf Englisch

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

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

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

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

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.

Jim McKelvey

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

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

Jim McKelvey

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

Jim McKelvey

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

Jim McKelvey