Words matter. These are the best Miguel McKelvey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.
We’re very specific when we’re drawing work plans. We think about the chances of when a person gets off the elevator where they will go. We think about how people get to a coffee machine, when they go and get their lunch, when they go to the bathroom.
Happiness, the feeling of positivity, really is the foundation of productivity.
People really want different things depending on who they are.
We’re really focused on being ‘of no time.’ We studied the idea of timelessness, looking at what designs in history have become timeless.
It can be isolating to be an entrepreneur… you have to keep hustling to make it happen and that can be lonely.
I consider myself to be a ‘reducetarian.’ I try to consume less and be aware of the decisions I’m making. Not just food, but single-use plastics, and fossil fuels and energy.
The copycats are interesting because some of them branded themselves as ‘WeWork of China,’ which helped establish us before we were there.
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.
The difference between me and a lot of other people is I can feel the effect of light, space, furniture, height, scale, distance, all these micro-environments affect me in a strong way.
I don’t eat meat, but I don’t consider myself a vegetarian.
I’ve seen how business can transform communities.
Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is a good one.
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.
What draws us to a city like San Francisco is the same thing that draws entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancers to WeWork: it’s the creative atmosphere, the technical sophistication, and the strong sense of community.
There’s no such thing as ‘making it.’
When you have no idea what to do or how to do it, you just need to see and absorb as much as you possibly can and just fill your vocabulary and your brain with as much as humanly possible.
If I had to name my superpower, it’s probably empathy.
People can connect in different ways. If you do a rope course with someone you otherwise wouldn’t meet and you share this incredible challenge, then you have perhaps formed a bond that could last forever.
More and more people are getting turned out of their corporations and laid off. As more people leave that behind, they’re tapping into their own skill sets and talents and doing something for themselves.
There is always someone who is going to look for the cracks.
It’s so uncommon to have a place where no one can call you.
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.
We’re not competing against other people who have similar ideas but we’re competing against ideas of work in general. There are still traditional office spaces that are not friendly to human beings that are not designed for connection and collaboration.
We’ve set this forever ambition to make WeWork the best place.
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.
When we imagine a future for both WeWork and WeLive and the other things that we’re doing, it really is about unlocking people.
We need to pay attention to the whole space – every room, chair and table – so it feels uplifting and inspiring.
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.
In the U.S., people are habitual about drinking coffee in the morning. In China, many are drinking coffee in the afternoon.
I like to be next to the center of attention.
I’d eat bowls of soft-serve ice cream until I felt sick.
Partitions and cubicles can be oppressive. They are so boring.
You should be happy to spend ten to twelve hours a day wherever you work.
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.
We’re not really in the real-estate space so much as we are the community-building space.
When you’re in the moments of greatest stress, those are the most memorable.
I want to be a person who says ‘Hey, if something is going on, come and tell me about it.’
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.
Hospitality is about trying to support multiple functions in one space.
If you look at WeWork as a brand I think the way we design has a more masculine vibe.
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.
The reality is we are all about servicing people and helping them achieve their dream, follow their journey and define their own success. When that is 100% authentic that flows through everything we do and translates.
