Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “A permaculture economy is superior to a circular economy.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

52. “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

53. “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

54. “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

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

59. “The elderly need love just like the children do.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

60. “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

61. “Urban decay is a thing. And the way to avoid urban decay is to actively plan for urban regeneration.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

62. “No necesitas trabajar duro por dinero. Nada en la naturaleza trabaja duro. En cambio, se trata solo de agregar valor y contribuir bien a la sociedad, ser alegre, estar abierto a recibir, sentir gratitud y sentirse rico. Haz estas cosas y el dinero fluye.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

63. “Everything we need to know about upcycling, we can learn from fungi.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

64. “Transportation at its best facilitates the efficient flow of resources, the efficient movement of people, and the efficient utilization of time. Thats why we do what we do at Mayflower-Plymouth. It’t just about cars and bicycles. Its about efficiency. Its about the improvement of the human experience. And ultimately its about the evolution of our planetary civilization.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

65. “Wealth is not a stagnant dry thing. Wealth is money alive. Wealth is money vibrant. Wealth is money in motion. Wealth is money continuously growing into greater and greater abundance, producing more and more of itself. Wealth is about money flowing with ease and grace and definiteness.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— 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. “Men, priority number one is to care for your kids and care for your wife. When we as men provide for our family, the universe allows us to manifest our desires more easily.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

70. “Nike is a good case study for marketing. Throughout the course of Nike’s existence, they’ve managed to establish a really strong brand that is tied not just to image but also to its customers experience with actual value.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

71. “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

72. “In conversation, it is respectful to take turns listening and speaking. And it’s rude to excessively interrupt a person while they are speaking.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

73. “The wise study the numbers and their ways. The wise count their movements and their stays.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

74. “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

75. “Small amounts of money can do good things. But big money can do great things.”

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76. “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

77. “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

78. “Gratitude amplifies wealth.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

79. “To be successful in business, you need to understand what you’re selling and you need to understand the people who are buying. And the more holistic your understanding, the more success the business will experience.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

81. “Every municipality in the world is ground zero for civilization-scale capital stewardship.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

82. “To succeed in business, it’s important to have an understanding of markets.”

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

84. “To hedge effectively, you have to reject the silo mentality and instead embrace the systems thinking mentality.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

85. “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

86. “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

87. “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

88. “As cryptocurrency becomes more widespread, we’ll have a world where money is easy to access, easy to move, easy to send, easy to receive, and easy to invest... And we’ll be able to do all of this globally. This means for example I can send Eth to my friend in India or my business partner in Panama with ease instantly.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

89. “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

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

91. “An important part of hedging against risk is quite simply keeping assets safe. When it comes to our Assets Under Management, preventing loss is critical.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

92. “Companies can learn a lot from biological systems. The human immune system for example is adaptive, redundant, diverse, modular, data-driven and network collaborative. A company that desires not just short term profit but also long term resilience should apply these features of the human immune system to it’s business models and company structure.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

93. “The ability to extract maximum value from resources while creating minimum waste is a profitable skill to have.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

94. “When a business utilizes resources wisely, it becomes better able to widen the margins between revenues and expenses.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

95. “Daughters always revel in their mothers admiration. And daughters always bask in their fathers love.”

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96. “We all have a responsibility to be efficient stewards of resources. That’s also what good investing is about – being an efficient steward of resources.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

97. “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

98. “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

99. “I don’t eat animals – I think eating animals is disgusting.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr