Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “When you’re buying from me and I’m buying from you and we’re all buying from each other, there’s flow within the ecosystem. And businesses in our ecosystem can tap into a portion of that flow to facilitate liquidity for their specific business.”

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252. “Like with pure Capitalism – in a Permaculture Economy, trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit and not by the state. This is essential to the success of an economic ecosystem.”

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253. “If you approach business thinking that you sell products or services, you will eventually become irrelevant to the marketplace. But if you approach business thinking that what you really sell is value, you will always be relevant to the marketplace.”

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254. “It is a matter of economic wellbeing that most families be formed as mother, father, and children in a single-family household.”

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255. “My goal is for Mayflower-Plymouth to have the most Assets Under Management than every other Asset Management company.”

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256. “Good cities cultivate welcoming business environments.”

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257. “In today’s constantly evolving economy, business models cannot be static. The business model of each business must be consistently changing and evolving in order to stay relevant and to succeed.”

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258. “Value earned is according to value provided.”

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259. “Managing a business does not require any genius. The main qualification is the ability to identify and deliver value to a group of people consistently and efficiently at the highest price point acceptable to them. Everything else can be hired out.”

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260. “Both wealth and poverty tend to themselves.”

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

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262. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we aim to steward capital the way nature stewards capital.”

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263. “Teachers’ minds influence the collective mind of human civilization. Humanity is in many ways influenced by the quality of our teachers collectively and the quality of our schools collectively.”

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264. “Marriage is a cornerstone of family, and vital to social wellbeing.”

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265. “Every municipality in the world is ground zero for civilization-scale capital stewardship.”

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266. “Our creativity comes from our liberty. As long as individual citizens in the USA have liberty, we will be a creative nation. If our liberty is stolen or forfeited, we will stop creating.”

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267. “Items from the bathroom should not be moved to or stored in any other part of the house except for a place designated for storage. And even then, the bathroom item should be cleaned before stored.”

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

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269. “Investment Portfolios should be actively managed.”

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270. “What if instead of engineering materials, we engineer processes, in which case some other life form produces the materials, to the specificity desired by the system designers?”

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271. “Capitalism incentivizes its participants to utilize capital; whereas permaculture economics incentivizes participants to steward capital. Capitalism emphasizes production and consumption. Permaculture Economics emphasizes holistic ROI and productivity.”

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272. “There are certain specific truths that transcend the specific religions; truths that are present in each religion but are not exclusive to that particular religion.”

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273. “Community cooperatives are a key feature in a Permaculture Economy.”

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274. “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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275. “Things nature is good at include – organizing matter in a way that is multi functional, mass customization, network adaptation to circumstance, responsive evolution, growth as a mechanism for construction, decentralization, data management and asset management. Regardless of what kind of business we are talking about, there’s something vital to learn from nature.”

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

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277. “Good cities implement good systems design – systems that cultivate life, systems that utilize waste, systems that promote wellbeing among its residents.”

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278. “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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279. “Some people like to hate on big companies because they’re big. I like to learn from big companies because they’re big. In business, size is a measurement of success. It’s certainly not the only measurement. But it is an important measurement.”

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280. “I watch Bloomberg because I can trust that the people I see on Bloomberg will present me with actionable and insightful information that will help me be a better leader in business.”

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281. “Money has ears. Be careful what you say to it. And be careful what you say about it. Because money will behave towards you according to what you say to it and according to how you feel about it.”

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

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283. “When students are inspired, they’ll do anything to gain new knowledge and understanding. They will seek to learn even more than the teacher seeks to facilitate learning.”

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284. “Disorder breeds poverty. Anywhere there is disorder, there will also be waste. And waste is one of the many causes poverty.”

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285. “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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286. “Decreased capabilities almost always correlate with increased costs.”

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287. “AI is going to allow civilization-scale capital stewardship on a whole nother level.”

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288. “A business is an ensemble of people. The energies, attitudes and personalities of employees come together and form the energy, attitude and personality of the business.”

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289. “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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290. “I am a value adder. My contributions improve peoples lives and I do it with ease and consistency. Therefore, I am a money magnet and money flows into my life with ease and consistency.”

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291. “High ESG standards are especially important in large municipal projects.”

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292. “Students need to be continually exposed to content that is slightly more advanced than their comprehension. This is how minds grow – by having to reach beyond present capability. This is how everything grows – by having to reach beyond.”

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293. “Every teacher should have real world experience in the subject they teach. To teach science, you should now be or have been a scientist or been in a job that uses science a lot. To teach business, you should now be or have been an entrepreneur or worked in the corporate world. This way, we can teach for real life and not for tests or abstractions.”

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294. “Saving money is vital to cultivating wealth. You cannot magnetize money if you have a habit of spending all of the money you have. Eventually, money will realize its not safe with you. To magnetize money and accumulate money, you need to be a saver, among other things.”

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295. “I believe in Chipotle. They have great tasting and nutritious food. And they’re also a great case study for business efficiency and business resiliency. The company has no long term debt, a loyal customer base, it owns and operates all of it’s stores, it has a clear business model and a clear growth path. They’ve got good company culture and they live by a set of values that earn the respect of their customers. In so many ways Chipotle is superior to it’s peers in the restaurant industry.”

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296. “Many charitable organizations don’t need to exist, and their work would be done better by either a business or the church.”

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297. “Gratitude is a very effective medicine for all kinds of problems.”

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

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299. “Municipalities that foster thriving business ecosystems can issue more investable bonds.”

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300. “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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