Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “God is spiritual and scientific; it is spirit-science.”

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202. “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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203. “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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204. “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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205. “Los negocios bien hechos tienen la capacidad de reemplazar la caridad.”

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “In closed loop systems, flow facilitates flow. Liquidity facilitates liquidity.”

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211. “When your company is contemplating change, it’s important to take inventory of employees perception. Does everyone in the company understand the need for making the changes being contemplated? And is everyone in the company committed to the changes? These are important considerations.”

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

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213. “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.”

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

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

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217. “I recommend every young entrepreneur do some gig work at least for research purposes. Get out there and work for Lyft or Uber or Instacart or whatever. These platforms allow a person to experience a direct conversion of value created to income earned, whereas most jobs and most entrepreneurial ventures have a lag. And the more intimately you understand value, the better.”

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218. “A good leader has a way of making people feel safe in their presence.”

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219. “Starting a business is risky. But with every risk, there are substantial rewards. Successful entrepreneurs learn to keep their minds focused on the rewards.”

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

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221. “There is a lot of money in Africa. There’s a lot of value being created by the people of Africa, from Egypt to Ghana to Zambia and everywhere in between. Ideas are flowing from African minds, innovations are emerging from African intellect, African businesses are providing solutions and valuable products and services. We are seeing it now and we will see it even more as the century progresses. As an investor, I’m putting big bets on Africa.”

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222. “When your company is buying from my company and my company is buying from your company, there’s flow. And if a bunch of our companies are doing that, then that flow can be leveraged toward liquidity.”

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

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224. “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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225. “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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226. “Marriage is a cornerstone of family, and vital to social wellbeing.”

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

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228. “Each of us is a spiritual being that has invested in a material experience. And from this material experience, we expect a substantial ROI. If we are intentional, the things of matter can be complimentary to the spirit.”

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

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231. “Business is about making peoples lives better.”

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232. “Trust is a prerequisite for financial transacting.”

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233. “When considering the acquisition of new sources of revenue, the business must account for the costs that must be incurred prior to the acquisition, and the costs associated with the maintenance of that source of revenue.”

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

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235. “If we desire to increase wealth in the world, we should not focus on the alleviation of poverty. To focus on poverty increases poverty. To focus on wealth increases wealth.”

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

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238. “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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239. “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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240. “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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241. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we care about profit and growth. And just as much we also care about things like the health of the earth, Whole Foods plant based or I-Tal living, vegan or vegetarian living, holistic education, spirituality, human rights, money equity, social cohesion, liberty, family, human health and more. To us, Investing is more than profit.”

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

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243. “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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244. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we take our Assets Under Management very seriously. We see ourselves as stewards of capital and we feel a profound sense of responsibility with the capital we steward.”

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245. “When you invest in something, you establish an energetic connection with it. So be careful what you invest in, and invest wisely.”

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246. “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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247. “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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248. “Permaculture Economics is about designing an economic ecosystem of maximized productivity.”

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249. “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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250. “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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