Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Be careful of how you discuss money in front of your children. Never speak of household finances in terms of lack or scarcity in front of your kids. Only speak of household finances in terms of goals and wealth in front of your kids. Your discussions about money will either enrich them with wealth consciousness or cripple them with poverty consciousness.”

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102. “Permaculture Economics includes Capitalism but it’s bigger than Capitalism.”

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103. “Handouts are like trojan horses that seem nice at first, only to learn later of their fraudulence and how much damage and turmoil and suffering they cause. Instead of seeking a handout, seek a customer.”

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104. “The utilization of productive assets is what investing is about.”

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105. “Con el dinero viene la responsabilidad. La forma en que gastamos e invertimos nuestro dinero tiene un impacto en nosotros mismos y en muchas otras personas.”

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106. “Liquidity is essential in business. So many businesses fail because of a failure to retain liquidity. But the principle is simple – to get things done, businesses need access to cash and capital. And without that access to cash and capital the business will fail because it won’t be able to find it’s operations.”

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107. “In this new age where data is so abundant, our task as a civilization now is effective beneficial utilization. The challenge now is doing good things with that data – things that make our lives and the lives of future generations of people more fulfilling and more joyful and more prosperous.”

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108. “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.”

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109. “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.”

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110. “In a capitalist ecosystem, different forms of capital often compete to the detriment of one another. In a permaculture economy, different forms of capital are incentivized to collaborate and share in the holistic ROI of maximized productivity. Capitalism embraces linear and singular value chains whereas Permaculture Economics embraces value networks and multiplicative value effects.”

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111. “In today’s global economy, it’s essential that businesses efficiently execute on or plug into logistics.”

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112. “When managers use ESG frameworks to inform choices, risk is inherently minimized.”

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113. “If you havnt created a job for yourself, you’d better not quit the job you have.”

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114. “Cryptocurrency should never and will never replace government issued fiat currently. The value of Cryptocurrency is limited to very specific use-cases and small social ecosystems with specific common objectives. That’s not a bad thing. It’s good when things are applied strictly to their proper use cases.”

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115. “The first investment priority for each of us should be our home. We should each Invest in making our house feel like home. We should Invest making sure our home is a place where we feel loved and safe – a home that is an energetic incubator of our prosperity.”

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116. “In a Permaculture Economic system, participants view capital from a holistic perspective, as stewards of Capital rather than just users of Capital.”

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117. “When you’re humble, people tend to be more forgiving with your failures. I’ve learned to just be humble and keep my ego tamed. This gives me the freedom to live transparently without fearing what people will think about my failures.”

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118. “The new transportation system is multi-modal, autonomous and electric. People utilize a variety of vehicles including cars, bicycles, passenger drones, hoverboards, airplanes, boats, rockets and more. And with ease, efficiency and comfort. At Mayflower-Plymouth, we’re making that real.”

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

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120. “When we start learning from and working with fungi, there will be no such thing as trash anymore. And there are so many business opportunities in that.”

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121. “When new things emerge in our world, its best to put some time into researching them and trying to gain an understanding. With that understanding, you’re then able to think about and plan for the new business applications for those things and the new ways in which your business may profit from them.”

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122. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we love helping businesses adapt to change. We all live and work in a dynamic and ever-changing economy. The businesses that are able to adapt, pivot and restructure are the businesses that are most positioned to thrive through the changes.”

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123. “Allowing bullying in the classroom is equivalent to excluding learning from the classroom. If bullying is present in the classroom it causes the classroom to not feel like a safe environment, and people do not learn in unsafe environments – except for those things which they feel will ensure their present safety.”

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124. “Permaculture Economics is about designing an economic ecosystem of maximized productivity.”

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125. “Many modern businesses have become proficient at mining data. In fact the mining of data is becoming almost routine. But as we advance further into the 21rst century and the 22nd century, the utilization of data begins to take priority. So it’s not just about collecting all this data, but also about getting really creative with generating new ways to utilize that data in the quest to add value.”

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126. “When I meet other men in business, I want to know what their relationship with their children is like. I think a mans role as a father says something about who he is as a businessman and the quality of leader he is.”

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127. “If a social ecosystem is created to legitimize the existence a cryptocurrency token, both will fail. The use case for tokens is to serve naturally occurring social ecosystems – that means people have already assembled in that way prior to the introduction of the token.”

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128. “To survive in this century, every company must be on a continual journey of transformation.”

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

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130. “How a business presents itself is very indicative of that businesses sense of self and about how much value and respect it’s owners and employees attribute to it. If the owners and employees don’t respect the business, neither will the customers and potential customers.”

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131. “The Central Bank of The Bahamas and the Bahamian people are leading the world in the normalization of digital currency and Blockchain technology as ways to build speed, liquidity, access, efficiency and security into payments.”

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132. “When we apply the design principles of permaculture to economics, we end up with an economic ecosystem where every participant adds to and benefits from maximized productivity.”

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133. “We were each created to prosper in our own way.”

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134. “Los negocios bien hechos tienen la capacidad de reemplazar la caridad.”

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135. “Good leaders are balanced people. They’re both decisive and thoughtful. They’re both curt and kind. They’re both focused and considerate of broader realities.”

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136. “When a business is experiencing dysfunction, it often times has a lot to do with internal processes and internal systems. And when we put in place new internal processes and new internal systems based on clear objectives and a clear value-add strategy, the business transitions from dysfunction to effectiveness.”

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137. “Decision is what directs energy, tunes frequency, and sets the rate of vibration of, in and toward life.”

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

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139. “Ethereum, or some other Cryptocurrency is going to be the global standard of payment. It’ll be of greater value than national fiat.”

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140. “In this modern era, Panama should be considering new ways to invest in and profit from global commerce, logistics and supply chains. It’s not just about widening the canal, but widening the ways in which the nation can add value to and extract value from the movement of products and services globally.”

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141. “We do not need to force altruism onto people. We only need to allow Permaculture Economics to flourish and people to pursue their own self interest.”

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142. “Any financial system that seeks to eliminate the need for trust will be eliminated by the need for trust.”

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143. “Capitalism embraces linear and singular value chains whereas Permaculture Economics embraces value networks and multiplicative value effects.”

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144. “God is spiritual and scientific; it is spirit-science.”

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145. “Now, more than ever, the world needs a Permaculture Economy.”

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146. “The music industry is a great case study for how value can ripple out through an economic ecosystem and how compensation for that value ripples back to the originators of that value.”

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147. “Money is supposed to flow easily and consistently. We should add value in the world in the way that is most natural to us individually, and money should just naturally flow into our life.”

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148. “Humans as a species will need to embed the concept of symbiosis into our global society such that in all of our activities – we are voluntarily benefitting from and providing benefit to a multitude of other life forms. And businesses should be leading the way with this.”

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149. “The Bahamas is becoming a leading nation in regards to Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency. I think The Bahamas will supercede the United States in these categories soon. And if Bahamians approach this right, we can pivot from the entrapment of tourism to the leverage of influencing global interactions with cryptocurrency, new forms of capital, and vital technologies.”

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150. “Biomimicry is known for its design applications. But biomimicry also has an abundance of business applications. When businesses learn from nature and apply what they learn; the results include greater efficiency and more profit, among other things.”

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