Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “To succeed in business, it’s important to have an understanding of markets.”

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102. “There is a spirituality to money. Things like theft and fraud and dishonesty will never produce good long-term monetary results. And the ROI for those things is always a deficit.”

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103. “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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104. “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

105. “If you fear poverty, poverty will chase you down. If you fear wealth, wealth will evade you. Fear and money are horrible companions. Infact, fear and money are enemies.”

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106. “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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107. “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.”

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108. “As data and science become more accessible and more the production of software and AI, human creativity is becoming a more valuable commodity.”

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

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

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111. “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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112. “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.”

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113. “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.”

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

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

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

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117. “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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118. “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.”

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119. “Can we train an AI to exist in service to the efficiency of a business ecosystem? I’d like to explore that possibility.”

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120. “Lots of things define what it means to be a good city. But one thing all good cities have in common is lots of trees integrated into the design of the city. Trees are vital to a thriving city.”

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121. “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.”

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122. “If you call yourself an entrepreneur but you haven’t created a stable job for yourself in the context of your business – you’re not an entrepreneur, you’re an unemployed person with sporadic sources of income.”

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123. “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.”

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124. “Gratitude multiplies things to be grateful for. Faith multiplies proof of faithfulness. Love multiplies circumstances that facilitate love.”

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125. “At Poinciana Schools, every student is like a beautiful Poinciana Tree that produces an abundance of blossoms of value.”

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126. “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.”

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127. “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.”

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128. “If we radiate feelings and thoughts of wealth and affluence, we will naturally attract more wealth and affluence into our life. The same is true, then, of the opposite.”

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129. “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.”

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130. “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.”

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131. “Change Management provides strategies, tools, and methods that equip an organization to achieve a desired future state.”

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132. “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.”

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133. “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.”

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

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135. “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.”

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

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138. “In terms of business resilience, it’s important to have the ability to repurpose inputs and redirect outputs. It’s important to have a good amount of flexibility designed into the businesses operating systems. When a business can answer the if this then that question over and over again with different fill in the blanks, it’s got resilience.”

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

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “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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143. “I love Jesus’ parable about the bags of Gold. I think it’s a lesson on responsible capital stewardship.”

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

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145. “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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146. “Incorporating biosolids into construction materials is a win for sustainable development.”

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147. “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.”

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148. “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.”

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149. “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.”

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150. “Business ideas are sensitive to market conditions, culture, technological development and other things. What maybe was a bad business idea ten years ago may be a great business idea today. Give it a try. Mayflower Plymouth.”

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