Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “Scarcity is an illusion that results from inefficient systems.”

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103. “Businesses everywhere can learn a lot from nature.”

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104. “Money has ears. Be careful what you say to it. And be careful what you say about it. Because money will behave towards you according to what you say to it and according to how you feel about it.”

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105. “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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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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.”

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

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

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

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112. “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.”

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113. “In business and in all of life, a major part of effective crisis management is acknowledging the existence of the bad things that are happening. Once you have that acceptance, you can begin to strategize step by step how to manage the crisis and emerge from the crisis into a more favorable reality. But if you pretend like the bad things aren’t happening, they magnify the crisis.”

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

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

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116. “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.”

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117. “One of the great themes of nature is abundance. One of the great themes of every city should also be abundance. In every city, there should be an abundance of opportunities, an abundance of food, an abundance of available homes, an abundance of biodiversity, an abundance of spaces to play.”

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

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

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

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122. “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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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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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126. “Gratitude multiplies things to be grateful for. Faith multiplies proof of faithfulness. Love multiplies circumstances that facilitate love.”

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127. “Money is wonderful because I do wonderful things with money. Money is good because I do good things with money.”

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128. “Putting coalitions in place that consist of various stakeholders is often times crucial to a successful change management implementation.”

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

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130. “As new Indusries emerge, new kinds of key performance indicators also emerge.”

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131. “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.”

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132. “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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133. “NFT’s are transforming the way commerce is transacted, contracts are enforced, investments are held, and value is transferred.”

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134. “It is critical to our union that we only have one dominant language – English.”

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135. “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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136. “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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137. “Insurance is important in business. It just makes sense that we share risk for low probability high impact events.”

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138. “Productivity should emerge from a natural flow, not from force. If you are working in alignment with your purpose and skill sets, you will have a certain work-flow that naturally results in productivity. And that productivity can be further improved with intentionality. In this way, your investment of time and energy achieves the maximum ROI.”

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139. “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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140. “Kids inherently love to learn. Adults either cultivate this love and multiply it, or they cause them to throw it away. You can be sure that if you have kid in your class who seems to despise learning, it is not of their own error but of the perversion of the school they have attended or the home where they reside.”

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141. “Students need to be continually exposed to content that is slightly more advanced than their comprehension. This is how minds grow – by having to reach beyond present capability. This is how everything grows – by having to reach beyond.”

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142. “If you have wealth without liquidity, you’re still in bondage. If you have capital without currency, you’re still in bondage. Liquidity equals freedom.”

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143. “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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144. “Community cooperatives are a key feature in a Permaculture Economy.”

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145. “There’s a big difference between teaching and instructing. Telling kids what to do and giving them assignments is not teaching, that’s instructing. On the contrary, teaching includes helping students to cultivate talents, foster understanding, and develop skills. Anyone can instruct, but teaching is a gift.”

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146. “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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147. “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.”

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148. “Investing, like spirituality, has a lot to do with energy, frequency and vibration. But it takes mastery to figure out how. And then even more mastery to apply the knowledge toward desirable results.”

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149. “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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150. “Fungi broker resources between species via mycelium networks and in doing so they cultivate health and resilience for the entire ecosystem. In the same way, each business should cultivate health and resilience for the entire business ecosystem.”

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