Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “The integrity of the family begins with the integrity of marriage.”

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103. “Scarcity is an illusion that results from inefficient systems.”

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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.”

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

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106. “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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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “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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114. “A permaculture economy is one whereby people are inclusively participating in productivity and equitably sharing in profits.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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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118. “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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119. “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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120. “It is more profitable to be a lender than a spender.”

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

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

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124. “Having a lot of money is about providing for your family, enjoying the beautiful moments, minimizing stress, and having the liberty to live a heart-centered spirit-centered life. It’s good to have a lot of money.”

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

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

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

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131. “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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132. “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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133. “Businesses everywhere can learn a lot from nature.”

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

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

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136. “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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137. “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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138. “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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139. “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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140. “Incorporating biosolids into construction materials is a win for sustainable development.”

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141. “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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142. “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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143. “Money and love make a great couple. Money can do amazing things when it’s paired with love. And love can do amazing things when it’s paired with money.”

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

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

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

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147. “In business, supply chains risks are not only correlated to the competition or to collaborators or to customers. Supply chain risk is also correlated to all of the companies and industries using the same imputs as your business.”

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

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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. “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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