Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A classroom needs to feel like a safe place for both students and teachers. In order for creativity and higher level thinking to be present in the classrooms, a feeling of safety must first be present in the classrooms.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

2. “A good Board Of Directors team is one where ideas are flowing fluidly – and where each idea is met with an initial welcome, an intellectual challenge, an expression of gratitude, a rigorous scrutiny and a readiness for action.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

3. “One way to improve efficiency is to streamline processes according to schedules, required inputs and expected outputs.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

4. “When it comes to leadership, influence is more powerful than authority.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

5. “Trust is a non-negotiable element of financial systems.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

6. “We believe in active portfolio management but not aggressive portfolio management.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

7. “When students are inspired, they’ll do anything to gain new knowledge and understanding. They will seek to learn even more than the teacher seeks to facilitate learning.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

8. “In business, efficiency is a prerequisite to profit.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

9. “ESG must be integrated into Business Transformation.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

10. “Change management is a broad term for the many ways of preparing, supporting, and helping businesses, teams, and organizations adapt to, thrive through and initiate change.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

11. “Change Management provides value in part by enabling people to adopt the change and operate in the future state of the company.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

12. “A circular economy is a step in the right direction towards a permaculture economy.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

13. “Leadership is an important part of ESG. Both the S and the G in ESG have a strong correlation to leadership.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

14. “Rules and consequences are not the best tools for classroom management. Giving students goals and rewards is more effective. It’s about putting systems in place that actively incentivize good behavior and passively decentivize bad behavior. In this way, as a teacher you can spend less time on managing behaviors and more time on educating and leading.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

15. “If a person is poor and thinks rich people are bad, they will never be rich. To envy the rich is to cause yourself to never achieve riches. Poor people often despise rich people and blame rich people, and this is one of many reasons why they remain poor all their life.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

16. “Hiring a management consulting company is an investment into the success of your business. Even if your business is the best, it can be better. And good consultants help businesses to be better.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

17. “The people who seek to control other people are often the same people who have no control of themselves. The dominance they seek in controlling others is an effort to satisfy an internal inadequacy.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

18. “Learn the power of tantra. Focus on your desires with singleness of purpose and align your actions with your desire, and your desires will manifest into your reality.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

19. “With money comes responsibility. How we spend and invest our money has an impact on ourselves and on so many other people.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

20. “If you beg for money or resources, more begging will be increasingly required. Begging exacerbates void and lack.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

21. “Money, assets and things are not acquired for their own sake. We acquire money, assets and things to help us live more fulfilling lives and to provide a better way for our families to live more fulfilling lives.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

22. “Leadership is not about status or title, it’s about using influence to guide people toward greatness.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

23. “Good cities are integrated with nature, not separate from nature. A good city works with nature instead of against it. And the greatest cities are nearly indistinguishable from nature.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

24. “Do not covet anything that belongs to another person. Instead, be happy with your own life, love yourself, remove your excuses, and work.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

25. “A business is in alignment if it’s employees feel a sense of fulfillment from working for the business and its customers feel a sense of fulfillment from buying from the business. In this case, fulfillment is in both the exhale and the inhale of the businesses activity. And this cycle of fulfillment will lead to sales and profits.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

26. “The human dimension of organizational change is vital. Because ultimately, a company is a collaboration of people.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

27. “For any business to endure in today’s ever changing global economy, there has to be a willingness and an ability for that business to consistently renew itself and redefine itself and revitalize itself.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

28. “Your products and services should attract customers like pollen attracts honeybees. The value of what your business offers should be a magnet to customers.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

29. “Organizations seek to implement change because they acknowledge that the present version of the business is insufficient and that to ensure business continuity the business must manifest a new version of itself.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

30. “Cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology offer a lot of potential with investing.”

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31. “We all have a responsibility to be efficient stewards of resources.”

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32. “Money can reach you through many different ways at any moment in time. Money doesn’t have limits. Be receptive and keep your heart open to the many possibilities.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

33. “It’s good for good and spiritual people to have a lot of money. Because when good and spiritual people have a lot of money, we do good and spiritually aligned things with the money.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

34. “Businesses profit by solving social problems. Therefore, it’s business – not charity or government – that should be employed to solve many of the big societal problems of today. Whether it’s the climate crises, or gender equity, or pollution or whatever... Business can solve those problems.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

35. “A permaculture economy is superior to a circular economy.”

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36. “Thriving through change requires clear strategy. But ironically, it also requires the willingness to toss all of your existing plans out the window if the business is presented with new data or new circumstances that delegitimize the clear strategy.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

37. “There is beauty in being a good employee. Most people can achieve more greatness as an employee than they ever could as an entrepreneur.”

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38. “True wisdom is acquired by the person who sees patterns, and comes to understand those patterns in their connection to other patterns – and from these interconnected patterns, learns the code of life – and from the learning of the code of life, becomes a co-creator with God.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

39. “Now, more than ever, the world needs transformational leaders – not to cultivate change for it’s own sake, but to lead through the inevitable evolutions in business and human society.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

40. “If you aren’t challenging people to change in some way, you aren’t a leader.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

41. “Business done well has the ability to supersede charity.”

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42. “Private Equity really has the power to direct the development of civilization. Because development goes where capital flows.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

43. “A good investment is like a good fruit tree. From its conception, it grows exponentially larger consistently and reliably. It’s required input in a small percentage of its output. It regularly gives back to the broader ecosystem, helping multiple other lives to prosper. And it produces an abundance of fruit for the enjoyment of its owner.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

44. “Efficient supply chain management is essential for individual businesses, specific markets, and for the economy as a whole – especially when we’re talking about Permaculture Economics. A global economy where products and services are moved from source to destination with maximum efficiency... That’s a win for everyone.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

45. “Whenever expenses become greater than income, it is inevitable that liabilities will become greater than assets.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

46. “If a businesses customers can clearly describe its value proposition, then it has succeeded in its marketing plan.”

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47. “Students need a teacher who inspires them. When students view their teacher as inspirational, it increases their appetite for learning.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

48. “Sexual energy should be wisely grown, prudently cultivated, and profitably expressed. Learn the art of sexual Transmutation, and channelling the sexual energy from root chakra to crown chakra.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

49. “According to the study of human psychology, human behavior is determined, in part, by incentives and decentives.”

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50. “Money is good. And the more, the better.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr