Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

152. “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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153. “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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154. “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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155. “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.”

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156. “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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157. “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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158. “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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159. “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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160. “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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161. “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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162. “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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163. “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.”

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164. “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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165. “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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166. “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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167. “Change Management provides strategies, tools, and methods that equip an organization to achieve a desired future state.”

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168. “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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169. “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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170. “Gratitude multiplies things to be grateful for. Faith multiplies proof of faithfulness. Love multiplies circumstances that facilitate love.”

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

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

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

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

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

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179. “Effective scaling requires clear strategy. Nature has provided us with a portfolio of growth applications to learn from and our job as business leaders is to be strategic with that.”

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180. “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.”

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181. “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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182. “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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183. “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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184. “Business is about making the world a better place.”

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

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186. “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.”

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187. “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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188. “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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189. “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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190. “As AI technology matures paired with the continued implementation of Blockchain technology, I think we’ll see a lot of analyst, educator and lawyer jobs for example be repositioned into the consulting industry. Consulting will pretty much be a broad category for all jobs involved in the gathering, utilization and sale of actionable data.”

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191. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we treat municipal bond holding as both a path to profit and an investment into social progress.”

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192. “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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193. “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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194. “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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195. “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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196. “Development goes where capital flows.”

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

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198. “There’s relevant data, and there’s irrelevant data. In business, it’s important to only utilize relevant data.”

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199. “Investing has the best results when you learn from nature.”

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200. “Assets are like trees and money is like fruits. The goal is for our trees to produce as much fruit as possible and for us to enjoy in that abundance of fruit.”

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