Top 80 Hendrith Smith Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Sometimes debt is a useful tool that can help the business achieve it’s strategic goals. But be careful – because one thing debt does well is cripple it’s host.”

— Hendrith Smith

52. “Businesses are at all times and in different ways accountable to employees, suppliers, customers and community.”

— Hendrith Smith

53. “One aspect of effectiveness is to simply not do things that don’t contribute to the goals of the business.”

— Hendrith Smith

54. “It’s hard to keep a company going with little cash, little sales, high debt and decreasing asset values. If a company ever gets into this situation, it’s a wrap.”

— Hendrith Smith

55. “As the cells in our bodies are influenced by our earthly weather, Our bodies and minds are also influenced by the weather of the cosmos. We are subtly influenced by the physics of our cosmic environment.”

— Hendrith Smith

56. “Being a skilled professional at something does not automatically equate to being skilled at leading a business in that same profession. Someone could be a phenomenal hair stylist, but that doesn’t mean that they would be a great manager of a Salon. Business management requires its own skill set separate from being skilled at whatever service or product the business provides.”

— Hendrith Smith

57. “Everything is always changing in business, except the essentials. Markets change, platforms change, customers change, owners change, trends change... But the essentials remain constant.”

— Hendrith Smith

58. “Even as we sit, we dance – In this cosmic saga of numbers and geometric patterns, continually coming alive.”

— Hendrith Smith

59. “Sometimes the economy is unpredictable. Sometimes markets and industries are unpredictable. Sometimes unpredictable things happen that could impact the company. That’s why your company needs to have a healthy amount of liquidity; accessible cash. And that’s why the company needs to be nimble and able to adapt. A nimble and adaptable company with healthy cash reserves is better positioned to thrive even through unpredictable circumstances.”

— Hendrith Smith

60. “There’s nothing more disastrous than unemployed capital.”

— Hendrith Smith

61. “If you complain about the money or resources you lack, then you will lack more of it. However, if you are grateful for the money and resources you do have, however small or large it may be, you will gain more of it.”

— Hendrith Smith

62. “A product is a tangible item that is sold and purchased on the basis of ownership transfer in exchange for currency or capital.”

— Hendrith Smith

63. “Business management requires its own skill set separate from being skilled at whatever service or product the business provides.”

— Hendrith Smith

64. “Assets will be attacked and therefore must be actively and strategically protected. Against inflation, competition, devaluation, recession, deflation, fees, taxes, expenses, and more. In nature, parasites are attracted to wealth and so wealthy organisms must actively protect themselves against parasites. The same principle applies in human civilization.”

— Hendrith Smith

65. “Nature has mastered compounding. At Mayflower-Plymouth we want our capital, profits and growth to compound the way compounding happens in thriving forests.”

— Hendrith Smith

66. “When the company experiences new kinds of competition, it needs to urgently become a new kind of competition.”

— Hendrith Smith

67. “The principles of wealth are true regarding large amounts and small amounts. It all begins with the smallest unit of currency.”

— Hendrith Smith

68. “No other system of economic organizing rewards merit, hard work and creativity the way Capitalism does.”

— Hendrith Smith

69. “A service is a task or set of tasks performed by a business for a customer on the basis of some value provided.”

— Hendrith Smith

70. “Wealth is the blessing of the prudent. And profit is the reward of the judicious.”

— Hendrith Smith

71. “Ideas are valuable in business and they should be treated as such.”

— Hendrith Smith

72. “Profits are determined by productivity; by value added and by efficiencies and effectiveness.”

— Hendrith Smith

73. “The need for physical spaces dedicated to financial wellbeing are no more in threat of extinction than the need for physical spaces dedicated to physical wellbeing.”

— Hendrith Smith

74. “Large scale investing is best done by professional investors, not hobbyists.”

— Hendrith Smith

75. “An asset is anything that puts money in your account consistently and results in net value increases.”

— Hendrith Smith

76. “All life naturally strives for growth. It is a natural phenomena. There are no conceivable limits to our growth. Once one ecosystem is outgrown, there is always a larger more comprehensive ecosystem to grow into. This should continue endlessly and exponentially.”

— Hendrith Smith

77. “Life is just a commitment of conscience; A play to just experience. Tell me what was life in the beginning, before all of this was here?”

— Hendrith Smith

78. “We are composed of the same energy and quanta of that which composes everything. We are co-composers of the universe; thinkers of the only mind that thinks. Co-creators with the God that is creating us.”

— Hendrith Smith

79. “Capitalism is a system of accountability and reciprocity.”

— Hendrith Smith

80. “Mayflower-Plymouth will be the largest Capital Management Company in the world by 2040.”

— Hendrith Smith

81. “Wise people decide everyday to be happy, despite the struggles. We ourselves decide, cognitively to have joy. Happiness is a decision.”

— Hendrith Smith

82. “In these United States of America that we call home, we may not know perfection – but we do know progress.”

— Hendrith Smith

83. “Nature is great at hedging. All kinds of natural disasters can hit a forest – from hurricanes to heat waves to floods to freezing temperatures – and yet the forest can remain intact and continue to thrive year after year and decade after decade. At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to hedge our funds the way nature hedges – by cultivating resilience through systems design.”

— Hendrith Smith

84. “As a banker and investor, capital is the primary lens through which I view the world. It seems nature has this capital-centric view also.”

— Hendrith Smith

85. “Budgeting for liquidity is important. You have to include liquidity into the budget. Otherwise you could end up selling your farm in winter to buy someone else’s summer crops just to survive. Then come next planting season you’re starting from scratch.”

— Hendrith Smith

86. “The human body is controlled by the mind of the soul. These bodies are life infused, self-actualized, structured units of gathered dust... Actively engaged In the continuous creation of themselves through source spirit.”

— Hendrith Smith