Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

152. “Productivity should emerge from a natural flow, not from force. If you are working in alignment with your purpose and skill sets, you will have a certain work-flow that naturally results in productivity. And that productivity can be further improved with intentionality. In this way, your investment of time and energy achieves the maximum ROI.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

153. “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

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

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

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157. “To succeed in business, it’s important to have an understanding of markets.”

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158. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

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160. “Men, priority number one is to care for your kids and care for your wife. When we as men provide for our family, the universe allows us to manifest our desires more easily.”

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161. “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

162. “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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163. “In a Permaculture Economic system, participants view capital from a holistic perspective, as stewards of Capital rather than just users of Capital.”

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164. “When managers use ESG frameworks to inform choices, risk is inherently minimized.”

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165. “If you havnt created a job for yourself, you’d better not quit the job you have.”

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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. “Business done well has the ability to supersede charity.”

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168. “When we start learning from and working with fungi, there will be no such thing as trash anymore. And there are so many business opportunities in that.”

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169. “When new things emerge in our world, its best to put some time into researching them and trying to gain an understanding. With that understanding, you’re then able to think about and plan for the new business applications for those things and the new ways in which your business may profit from them.”

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170. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we love helping businesses adapt to change. We all live and work in a dynamic and ever-changing economy. The businesses that are able to adapt, pivot and restructure are the businesses that are most positioned to thrive through the changes.”

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171. “Permaculture Economics is about designing an economic ecosystem of maximized productivity.”

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172. “Many modern businesses have become proficient at mining data. In fact the mining of data is becoming almost routine. But as we advance further into the 21rst century and the 22nd century, the utilization of data begins to take priority. So it’s not just about collecting all this data, but also about getting really creative with generating new ways to utilize that data in the quest to add value.”

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173. “When I meet other men in business, I want to know what their relationship with their children is like. I think a mans role as a father says something about who he is as a businessman and the quality of leader he is.”

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174. “When you’re humble, people tend to be more forgiving with your failures. I’ve learned to just be humble and keep my ego tamed. This gives me the freedom to live transparently without fearing what people will think about my failures.”

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175. “The new transportation system is multi-modal, autonomous and electric. People utilize a variety of vehicles including cars, bicycles, passenger drones, hoverboards, airplanes, boats, rockets and more. And with ease, efficiency and comfort. At Mayflower-Plymouth, we’re making that real.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

176. “The ability to extract maximum value from resources while creating minimum waste is a profitable skill to have.”

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177. “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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178. “The Central Bank of The Bahamas and the Bahamian people are leading the world in the normalization of digital currency and Blockchain technology as ways to build speed, liquidity, access, efficiency and security into payments.”

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179. “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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180. “We were each created to prosper in our own way.”

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181. “If a social ecosystem is created to legitimize the existence a cryptocurrency token, both will fail. The use case for tokens is to serve naturally occurring social ecosystems – that means people have already assembled in that way prior to the introduction of the token.”

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182. “To survive in this century, every company must be on a continual journey of transformation.”

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183. “Los negocios bien hechos tienen la capacidad de reemplazar la caridad.”

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184. “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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185. “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.”

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186. “Decision is what directs energy, tunes frequency, and sets the rate of vibration of, in and toward life.”

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187. “If a businesses customers can clearly describe its value proposition, then it has succeeded in its marketing plan.”

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188. “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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189. “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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190. “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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191. “The Subjectivity of Value: Value is determined by individual buyers and sellers and not by government. There is no product or service which has a fixed or definite value. Because circumstances, scenarios, and objectives vary indefinitely, value also varies indefinitely. Value is subjective in the same way that needs are subjective.”

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192. “With everything we do in business, it’s important that we always consider the ecological implications. And if we’re really doing things the Permaculture way, then it’s not just about factoring in ecological cost, but better yet ensuring that business processes and outputs actually add value to ecological and natural systems.”

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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. “Being an investor is very different than being an entrepreneur or businessperson. They require different skill sets. They aren’t the same.”

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195. “Money is wonderful because I do wonderful things with money. Money is good because I do good things with money.”

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

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198. “Managing waste is a really bad goal. Only an inefficient system would aim to manage waste. A better goal is making waste non-existent by designing the system itself, through it’s participants, to continually upcycle resources.”

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199. “The global economy and all of its markets are constantly changing. In order to survive and thrive as an individual in business these days, you’ve got to be always updating your mental models. You’ve got to be always updating the software of your mind and spirit so that you remain capable of seeing the new ways value is being measured and exchanged; and so that you remain capable to plugging in to and profiting from the new ways that value is being exchanged.”

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

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