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Miguel McKelvey Quotes
Miguel McKelvey Quotes
Miguel McKelvey
American
Businessman
Born:
1974
Own
People
Space
Think
Work
You
Trends start and then explode very quickly, and pretty soon it's everywhere, including McDonalds.
Miguel McKelvey
Trends
Everywhere
Pretty
Soon
Very
Quickly
McDonalds
Explode
Then
Including
Start
When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.
Miguel McKelvey
Work
Future
People
Money
First
Own
Control
Changing
Destiny
Something
Taking
Global
Terms
Felt
Making
Making Money
Were
Shift
Just
Wanted
Started
Hospitality is about trying to support multiple functions in one space.
Miguel McKelvey
Space
About
Hospitality
Support
Trying
Multiple
Functions
If you can figure out a way for people at all different stages of life to believe that they're all meaningful to each other, then yes, WeLive can work anywhere.
Miguel McKelvey
Life
Work
You
People
Believe
Other
Way
Out
Yes
Different
Stages
Anywhere
Meaningful
Then
Figure
Different Stages
Each
Companies have greater responsibility to their team members and to the world these days. We're the ones with the power. Large employers are the ones that can move the needle on issues.
Miguel McKelvey
World
Responsibility
Power
Members
Days
Employers
Greater
Issues
Move
Team
Companies
Large
Needle
It's certainly important for people to have a sense of privacy.
Miguel McKelvey
Privacy
People
Important
Sense
Certainly
We know the number of conference rooms and phone booths that make a building successful.
Miguel McKelvey
Phone
Building
Booths
Know
Make
Conference
Rooms
Successful
Number
People need a space that they can go to make a conference or Skype call. It's important to create those spaces and create a company culture that supports those spaces.
Miguel McKelvey
Culture
People
Space
Important
Those
Supports
Make
Call
Go
Conference
Spaces
Create
Company
Skype
Need
Rather than trying to fit a prescribed need for office sizes, we try to go with the flow of the building as much as possible.
Miguel McKelvey
Try
Building
Possible
Rather
Go
Fit
Than
Office
Trying
Sizes
Much
Prescribed
Flow
Need
In the big picture, we see WeLive as a huge opportunity, as big as WeWork, for sure.
Miguel McKelvey
Opportunity
Picture
Big
See
Sure
Huge
Huge Opportunity
Big Picture
When you're 30, 40, 50 people and you're all in the room and that energy flows, that's sort of easy to maintain and I think we've learned to love that.
Miguel McKelvey
Love
You
People
Energy
Think
I Think
Easy
Maintain
Learned
Sort
To Love
Room
Flows
We need to pay attention to the whole space - every room, chair and table - so it feels uplifting and inspiring.
Miguel McKelvey
Space
Pay
Pay Attention
Every
Table
Inspiring
Attention
Feels
Uplifting
Room
Whole
Chair
Need
For many of us, we imagine that separation is crucial, the time for your mind to switch from one thing to another is important. And there are other people who are much more comfortable with that barrier being on a spectrum, always working or always semi-working.
Miguel McKelvey
Time
People
Mind
Important
Separation
Other
One Thing
More
Crucial
Another
Comfortable
Always
Being
Us
Much
Working
Your
Who
Barrier
Many
Switch
Thing
Spectrum
Imagine
I don't think we are trying too hard. WE is inclusive from the beginning. That's the whole point. We've always been, ‘everyone is welcome.' There is no velvet rope, no barrier to entry.
Miguel McKelvey
Welcome
Beginning
Inclusive
Think
Too
Everyone
Point
Entry
Velvet
Always
Been
Trying
Rope
Hard
Barrier
Whole
You should be happy to spend ten to twelve hours a day wherever you work.
Miguel McKelvey
Work
Day
You
Be Happy
Happy
Spend
Ten
Hours
Wherever
Should
Twelve
Our aspiration is to be a holistic support system or lifestyle solution for people who are interested in being open and connected.
Miguel McKelvey
People
Our
System
Solution
Lifestyle
Open
Support
Being
Interested
Holistic
Aspiration
Who
Connected
I'd eat bowls of soft-serve ice cream until I felt sick.
Miguel McKelvey
Sick
Eat
Until
Bowls
Felt
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.
Miguel McKelvey
You
Thousands
Horrible
Never
New
Terrible
Buildings
Been
York
New York
Really
Designs
To me, just to be surrounded by others, even without a common purpose, is great fulfillment.
Miguel McKelvey
Great
Me
Others
Purpose
Without
Surrounded
Just
Common
Fulfillment
Even
A desk for $350 a month in a common area is not as cheap as a coffee shop. But a lot of people would say they're empowered by that environment in a way that makes it worth it.
Miguel McKelvey
People
Worth
Coffee
Month
Way
Say
Worth It
Would
Area
Cheap
Environment
Empowered
Makes
Lot
Shop
Common
Desk
What will make you energized and motivated, to be awesome today? Is it an awesome shower in the morning, is it a great breakfast, is it a beautiful view? Or is it all of those things together.
Miguel McKelvey
Today
Beautiful
Great
Morning
You
Together
Will
Breakfast
Awesome
Those
Make
Motivated
View
Shower
Things
It's so uncommon to have a place where no one can call you.
Miguel McKelvey
You
Uncommon
No-One
Call
Where
Place
Religion is no longer a connection point for most people. Our communities were built on coming together in physical locations once a week or twice a week. These institutions have dissipated.
Miguel McKelvey
Religion
Together
People
Our
Once
Once A Week
Locations
Physical
Point
Week
Longer
Institutions
Most
Built
Coming
Were
Communities
Connection
Twice
Twice A Week
It's a dream come true to think that opportunities flow from personal connections.
Miguel McKelvey
Opportunities
Think
Dream
True
Come
Personal
Connections
Flow
There's a trend for people wanting more meaning in their work and pursuing something in the day-to-day that is valuable rather than working as a means to the end.
Miguel McKelvey
Work
People
Trend
Valuable
Something
Rather
More
Pursuing
Day-To-Day
End
Than
Wanting
Meaning
Working
Means
I still want an entrepreneurial culture to exist forever.
Miguel McKelvey
Culture
Entrepreneurial
Still
Exist
Forever
Want
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