Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Community cooperatives are a key feature in a Permaculture Economy.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

152. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

153. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

154. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

155. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

157. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

158. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

159. “In nature, waste does not exist. There is only production and consumption; there is only creation and utilization. Everything that’s produced is efficiently consumed. Everything that’s created is efficiently utilized. And this cyclicality results in growth and in profit. The same should be true of each business, and the same should be true of an economy.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

160. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

161. “Fame is worthless unless it is a platform to glorify God. Because ultimately, Gods name is the only name that endures. And his Will is the only Will that prevails.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

162. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

163. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

164. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

165. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

166. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

167. “A reality whereby all individuals live, work and play together in a system of harmony and continual reciprocity, and in the spirit of love and unanimity – is possible. And we living today are the ones to make it happen.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

168. “It’s very important that municipalities employ effective communication. Citizens deserve to be informed of the ROI they’re getting for their tax dollars.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

169. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

170. “Both wealth and poverty are contagious. If you share your time and energy with people who have wealth consciousness, you will attain more wealth consciousness. If you share your time and energy with people who have poverty consciousness, then you will attain more poverty consciousness.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

171. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

173. “Our creativity comes from our liberty. As long as individual citizens in the USA have liberty, we will be a creative nation. If our liberty is stolen or forfeited, we will stop creating.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

174. “In the new transportation system, car interiors will be like living rooms or meeting rooms. Since cars will be autonomous, passengers will be able to utilize the trip time to work, converse, socialize, write, be artistic or whatever else. Mayflower-Plymouth is making it happen.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

175. “The abundance of money has a significant correlation to freedom. It’s good to have a lot of money.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

176. “We should only make commitments we are able to honor faithfully.”

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177. “To thrive in business, it’s good to have a clear understanding of the laws that affect business.”

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178. “The economy is always changing. So your business should always be changing. Managing a business includes adapting to change, evolving with change and sometimes pioneering those changes and evolutions.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

179. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

180. “After you’ve created value, the next part of building wealth is being a good receiver. In the same way that a good phone must be able to receive wi-fi frequencies, a good person must be open to receive the frequencies of wealth. It is good to give, and it is also good to receive.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

182. “A major determinant of a businesses success is the productivity of its employees.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

183. “I’m so grateful – the love me and my daughter Chaya share is so powerful and so potent and so pure. What we give each other is unconditional and unrestrained love. We pour that love into each other, and we embrace that love from each other with thankful hearts. So much so, that parts of ourselves live within the other. Nothing and no one could separate us. Nothing and no one could jeapordize our love. That’s the magnitude of our daddy daughter love. That’s me and Chaya.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

184. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

185. “In business, when it comes to implementing change, there’s a lot of redefining that often needs to happen... that might include redefining budgets, redefining resources, redefining business processes, and redefining value.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

186. “Employees aren’t inanimate objects that can just be moved around like bricks. They’re people with emotions and goals and comittments and more. They should be treated like stakeholders, because they are.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

187. “There’s no age mimimum to entrepreneurship. Kids can be entrepreneurs, kids can be executives. Ultimately succeeding in business is about the skill and capacity to add value. If you have that skill and capacity to add value as a kid, then you’ll succeed in business.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

188. “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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189. “Every tree in the forest knows about creating value, and about reciprocity and about stewardship. And every tree in the forest knows about profit and about investing and about ROI. This is why I study and learn from nature.”

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190. “Everything matters. Let’s treat the so called little things with importance just as we do the so called big things. Because the little things have a way of being connected and interdependent in such a way as to often be just as big as the big things.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

193. “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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194. “Development goes where capital flows.”

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195. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

196. “Value earned is according to value provided.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

197. “As leaders, sometimes we have to be willing to be temporarily disliked in order to be permanently loved.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

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199. “Investing has the best results when you learn from nature. Planet Earth has been alive for much longer than you or I and and it this thing figured out.”

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200. “There are enough resources in the world for everyone to experience some variable degree of wealth. And from a spiritual perspective, there are no limitations, only abundance.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr