Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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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152. “The ability to extract maximum value from resources while creating minimum waste is a profitable skill to have.”

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

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

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155. “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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156. “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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157. “Putting coalitions in place that consist of various stakeholders is often times crucial to a successful change management implementation.”

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

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159. “Capitalism embraces linear and singular value chains whereas Permaculture Economics embraces value networks and multiplicative value effects.”

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160. “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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161. “When cities prioritize sustainability, the residents in that city are more inclined to embrace sustainability as well.”

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162. “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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163. “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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164. “The integrity of the family begins with the integrity of marriage.”

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165. “Liquidity is important to investors. When opportunities arise, businesses need to have sufficient cash available in order to act on the opportunity promptly. Having sufficient cash available can also serve as protection against losses or a tool with which the business acquired solutions in the event of crises. We like to see that businesses have a sufficient amount of available cash.”

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166. “I was an entrepreneur for more than a decade. I know almost everything there is to know about business because I’ve lived almost everything there is to live about business. And I’ve poured that energy into Mayflower-Plymouth.”

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167. “Now, more than ever, the world needs a Permaculture Economy.”

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168. “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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169. “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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170. “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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171. “We all have a responsibility to be efficient stewards of resources. That’s also what good investing is about – being an efficient steward of resources.”

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

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174. “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.”

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

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

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

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179. “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.”

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

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181. “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.”

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182. “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.”

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183. “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.”

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

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

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187. “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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188. “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.”

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

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190. “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.”

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191. “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.”

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

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193. “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.”

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194. “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.”

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195. “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.”

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196. “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.”

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

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199. “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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200. “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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