Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Everything we need to know about upcycling, we can learn from fungi.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

52. “Greatness begins with the active pursuit of improvement.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

53. “There is a correlation between money and happiness. Money is our reward for adding value and helping other people. And we should feel happy about adding value and helping other people and all the rewards we get from that. That should fill us with joy and fulfillment.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

55. “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

56. “Organizational restructuring is something that should take place within a company fairly regularly. With our modern day economy being as dynamic as it is, and with change being as prevalent as it is, companies need to be adaptive and flexible – and that requires regular restructuring.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

58. “Slime mold can teach us how to establish better supply chain networks.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

59. “As a leader, it is possible to be both loved and respected. You don’t have to be a pushover to be loved, and you don’t have to be a bully to be respected.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

60. “Money loves to multiply. Money loves to grow.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

61. “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

62. “A lot of people are talking about the circular economy. But the ultimate goal is to have a permaculture economy.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

63. “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

64. “It’s good to start a business, but more than that; you must create a job for yourself. If you’ve created a business but haven’t created a job for yourself, you’ll need to remain employed at someone else’s business in the meantime.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

65. “As companies age they tend to become more reliant on extracting value from their past successes and less desirous of innovating. It’s every CEO’s job to ensure the company rejects this tendency and instead chooses to embrace both the capital of past success and the capital of present innovation.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

66. “Money is better when you have more of it. With money, enough is not enough. You should always have more than enough money – an abundance of money. Look at nature, nature never only makes enough of a good thing. It always makes more than enough. And there’s no scarcity or lack. Everything in nature experiences more than enough.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

67. “Maintaining good accounting records is vital to the successful management of a business. It’s really good to be able to assess business-specific financial data to inform decisions. So every business should invest in good accounting software like Intuit, Quicken, or Freshbooks... Or any of the many apps out there.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

68. “Teacher is the most important career in society. Without teachers, no other career would exist in mature form.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

69. “Jesus taught several great lessons on wise investing, including The Parable of The Bags of Gold, The Parable of the Tenants and the Parable of The Sower.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

70. “Immigration is a necessary and good thing for our great nation. But it must be orderly and structured. It must be liberally embraced, yet conservatively managed.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

71. “Teaching is about helping students to cultivate talents, foster understanding, and develop skills.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

72. “If you treat your employees like trash, they will treat your customers like trash. If you treat your employees beautifully, they will treat your customers beautifully. A good business treats it’s employees beautifully.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

73. “Effective consulting is about gathering and presenting actionable data, and helping businesses solve problems, implement solutions, and innovate.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

74. “We should give to others what we intend to get. What enters into a circle will complete a full cycle and return to its origin in kind.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

75. “If the nations of Africa desired to assure the prosperity of the next 25 generations of African people, they would get together and collaborate on establishing a continental Permaculture Economy. And they would do that immediately. That would be a wise investment.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

76. “Self love is the beginning of all true love. Before self love, there is only attachment. A person who does not love the “I”, cannot truly love the “we.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

77. “In nature, there are multiple forms of currency. Permaculture Economics embraces multiple forms of currency.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

78. “If your business is serious about becoming the best version of itself, consult with Mayflower-Plymouth. If the company or government you lead has major problems that need major solutions or major opportunities that inspire action, consult with Mayflower-Plymouth. We provide holistic solutions with our consulting services.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

79. “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

80. “In business, technology is a wave that you just have to surf. Businesses either surf the wave, or they drown in it.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

81. “Teachers have to model the behaviors they expect from students. If you expect your students to be respectful, you need to be the first one to be seen showing respect to every student and every other teacher. If you expect your students to be curious learners, then you yourself should be a curious learner who is willing to learn from your students sometimes. Do not ask of your students any behavior which you are not willing and able to model.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

82. “Imagination is the engine of creation. As we imagine our goals and desires fulfilled in our mind, we cause them to become true in our life.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

83. “People tend to buy more at a lower price and less at a higher price. Also, people who produce goods or supply services tend to produce more at higher prices and less at lower prices. This juxtaposition constitutes equilibrium.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

84. “Consistency is important. Doing a good thing only once or twice or a few times is not sufficient. You’ve gotta do the good things repetitively and indefinitely. You’ve gotta do the good things over and over and over again. When you are consistent, people trust you and respect you.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

85. “A purely capitalist ecosystem is like a wild forest – It’s beautiful and great and productive. But the application of design principles which utilize the natural capabilities already there will result in a luscious fruit garden that is more beautiful, more great, and more productive. A permaculture economy is that luscious fruit garden.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

86. “There’s power in intuitive organic growth. Sometimes businesses thrive by just taking it one step at a time as opposed to having some grand strategy. Strategy is really important in business, but so is intuition.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

88. “Hard work is about getting the job done by any means necessary. Smart work is about getting the job done by the least means necessary. In both cases, the same job gets done. Both are effective. But the latter is more efficient than the former.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

89. “You don’t need to work hard for money. Nothing in nature works hard. Instead, it’s just about adding value and contributing good to society, being joyful, being open to receive, feeling gratitude, and feeling rich. Do these things and the money flows in.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

90. “Cars will need to be designed with whole new ways of thinking. The design of cars will need to adapt to a whole new transportation system. Each individual car part will evolve as functionalities evolve and the way we utilize cars evolves.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

91. “Humanity needs a new transportation system – a new system of moving people and resources. We need greater efficiency with a good bit of joy built in. And Mayflower-Plymouth is providing that.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

92. “Transitioning a business from current state to future state requires clear strategy, adaptability, synergy among all involved and a dedication to execution – among other things.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

93. “Capitalism resembles a wild forest. But a Permaculture Economy resembles a productive fruit garden. Both are great, but the latter facilitates prosperity more equitably and with more definiteness of purpose.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

94. “A leader that feels they have to prove their authority is in fact not a leader at all.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

95. “As Consultants, we add immense value. With our insights, we are able to give quality guidance to companies, businesses, governments, organizations, municipalities, groups and individuals – and ultimately provide them with resources to help them make better choices. And with everyone making better choices, the world is a better place.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

96. “As an entrepreneur, you’re not so much selling products or services – you’re really selling value. The value you sell is only dressed in a product or service.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

97. “Every business is unique. Every business must dance to the beat of its own drum and sing it’s own song.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

98. “You cant people-please the unpleasable.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

99. “It is more profitable to be a lender than a spender.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

100. “A permaculture economy is one whereby people are inclusively participating in productivity and equitably sharing in profits.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr