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

152. “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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153. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

154. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

155. “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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156. “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

157. “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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158. “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

159. “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

160. “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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161. “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

162. “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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163. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

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165. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

166. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

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

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169. “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.”

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170. “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

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

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

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

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

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176. “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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177. “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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178. “Incorporating biosolids into construction materials is a win for sustainable development.”

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179. “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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180. “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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181. “Value earned is according to value provided.”

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

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

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184. “When money is pooled together, it has a greater impact. A million dollars has more impact than one hundred thousand dollars. One hundred ETH has more impact than ten ETH. The more money, the greater the impact.”

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

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187. “Spirituality makes me a better investor. Being one with the universe enables me to better understand energy flow, and investing has a lot to do with energy flow.”

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188. “Closed supply chain loops are essential to Permaculture Economics.”

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189. “We live in a time when lots of people want to be famous. It’s particularly a problem with young entrepreneurs. Fame has become a toxic desire for many people. Because fame is worthless unless it is a tool to glorify God. And even in the marketplace, what matters most is your ability to add value to other peoples lives. It’s about service through adding value. And the best form of payment for that is money, not fame. So a lot of people need to really forget about fame and instead focus on value.”

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190. “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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191. “I am an investor. And as an investor, I have the pleasure of being involved in a variety of industries and innovations. But being an investor, I get to stay focused on the big picture instead of the little details.”

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192. “We are The exact meeting point Between infinite externalities And infinite internalities. So when we look out into the night sky And see the cosmos, We should also look into the I And see the cosmos. And as much universe As there is out there, There is also That much universe In here.”

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193. “If you run a business, it’s essential that you love whatever the business is selling. What you have with the business is similar to what you have with any other relationship – it will experience more success when love and passion is poured in.”

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194. “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.”

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195. “Business is inherently altruistic – to profit, a business must add value to peoples lives and It must solve peoples problems. It does this while creating income and wealth for employees and owners. This is what I call a ‘Multiplicative Value Effect.”

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196. “Money is beautiful. And the more money I have, the more beautiful it is. And I feel like my money gets more beautiful every single day. And every day, I see more beauty in it as it keeps growing and multiplying and flowing and expanding.”

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197. “One of the major priorities for a municipality should be to cultivate the conditions for a thriving business community.”

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198. “People do not naturally follow people with authority; they naturally follow people of influence. When it comes to leadership, influence is more powerful than authority.”

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199. “It’s good to love money. It’s the hatred of money and the lack of money that cause problems.”

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200. “When a business is experiencing dysfunction, it often times has a lot to do with internal processes and internal systems. And when we put in place new internal processes and new internal systems based on clear objectives and a clear value-add strategy, the business transitions from dysfunction to effectiveness.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr