Petria Mckelvey Quotes

#1. 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. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#2. 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. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#3. People who solve problems are happier. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#4. This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#5. We tend to believe that things are impossible that are very possible. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#6. 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. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#7. 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. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#8. 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. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#9. I'm a lot of things, Spatchcock, but 'beloved-of-law-enforcement' is not one of them. They'll just say that it's my own damn fault again and send me on my way. Besides, the last time I was at a police station I was quite rude to them. I think I threw a lamp at the custody sergeant. Do you have a light? #Quote by Robert McKelvey

#10. St. Louis is a customer- and partner-rich environment for any financial tech startup. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#11. It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services. #Quote by Jim McKelvey

#12. I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it! #Quote by Petria Thomas

#13. 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. #Quote by Jim McKelvey