Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

152. “Can we train an AI to exist in service to the efficiency of a business ecosystem? I’d like to explore that possibility.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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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156. “You don’t need to work hard for money. Nothing in nature works hard. Instead, it’s just about adding value and contributing good to society, being joyful, being open to receive, feeling gratitude, and feeling rich. Do these things and the money flows in.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

160. “When we invest, It’s about the big picture, and having a holistic approach to investing.”

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161. “As long as businesses have problems that need solutions, consultants will be valuable.”

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162. “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

163. “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

164. “There is no shame in failure. Everybody who has ever lived has experienced failure throughout their life, whether they will be honest about that or not.”

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165. “Find a few things to be grateful for today.”

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166. “A business is like a living being. It’s more of a process than a stagnant thing. The way you manage your business today shouldn’t be the same way you managed it ten years ago or even ten months ago. Because your business should have evolved and changed and adapted in some way during that time – just like living beings evolve and change and adapt to their environments.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

167. “Gratitude multiplies things to be grateful for.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

168. “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

169. “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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170. “A business is not just a legal entity – it’s a group of people engaged in the voluntary exchange of products, services, agreements and currencies. Buyers and sellers determine whether a business is a business. Not it’s legal entity status given by the state. I think legal status is good, but it’s not what truly establishes a business.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

171. “Stock Traders are always trying to time the market. But an investor tends to be thinking bigger, more broadly, and more holistically.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

172. “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

173. “When a company is implementing vital changes, it’s going to include some discomfort. Anytime we forego the comfort of the known even in search of something better, it’s still a little bit uncomfortable as we transition from one state of being to another state of being.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

174. “With a pure and balanced mind and a focused desire – we can, within reason, call forth any truth our soul may wish to live.”

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

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176. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

177. “Municipalities that invest in education position themselves to ensure future tax revenue.”

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178. “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

179. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

180. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

181. “You don’t need degrees or diplomas to be successful in business – you just need an understanding of what people value and how to sell it to them. Now if you have degrees and diplomas in addition to that, then even better.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

182. “I tell my daughter all the time – I love your beautiful brown skin and your beautiful tightly curled hair. When our daughters know that their fathers view them as beautiful, it cultivates healthy confidence and that stays with them into adulthood.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

183. “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

184. “If you’re an entrepreneur and you’ve started a business that you’re growing from the ground up, just know that its okay to get a job somewhere else while you build up the business. For probably most entrepreneurs, that’s just part of the journey. There’s no shame in that.”

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185. “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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186. “Business is about making the world a better place.”

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187. “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

188. “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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189. “A good investor is prudent but not risk averse.”

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

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

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194. “In closed loop systems, flow facilitates flow. Liquidity facilitates liquidity.”

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195. “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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196. “When planning projects and issuing revenue bonds, cities should assess the projects total impact to the urban ecosystem.”

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197. “In a capitalist ecosystem, different forms of capital often compete to the detriment of one another. In a permaculture economy, different forms of capital are incentivized to collaborate and share in the holistic ROI of maximized productivity. Capitalism embraces linear and singular value chains whereas Permaculture Economics embraces value networks and multiplicative value effects.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

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199. “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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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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr