20 Quotes by Jim McKelvey

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

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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