Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Mayflower-Plymouth is not only a company, it’s also an ecosystem.”

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252. “People buy from businesses for many reasons. Among those reasons include: favorable price, favorable accessibility, demonstrated shared values, label identification, and more. The more reasons you can give people to buy from your business, the better sales numbers your business will experience.”

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253. “It’s good to include playful and imaginative activities in business management. Managers of every business should be actively utilizing their imagination and directing that toward the advancement of the business. And incorporating playful activities into managerial routines is a good way to do that.”

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254. “The expectation for capital is always that it grows.”

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

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256. “Money basically does grow on trees. Money is that abundant. Money is that available.”

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257. “As a business owner you should never mix business income with personal income and never mix business expenses with personal expenses. Your business is a separate entity with a life of its own. Your job is to lead and manage that separate entity, not to entangle with it. Entangling with your business will result in chaos. But keeping business and personal separate will facilitate efficiency and reduce stress.”

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258. “As more companies comitt to Corporate Social Responsibility, the result is the emergence of a Permaculture Economy and a more prosperous world.”

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259. “Good companies have a good impact on all of its stakeholders. Everyone that the company interacts with should experience a value-add of some kind. And every environment in which the company operates should experience a value-add of some kind. And if done right, this will also drive up profits for the company.”

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260. “Amazon is a great case study for how a company can reimagine it’s role in an economy and also through it’s use of imagination, be a driving force in the recreation of an economy.”

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261. “The reward of productivity and personal achievement is a fulfilling life.”

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

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263. “People don’t need their leaders to like everything they like. But they do need their leaders to love and to like who they are. When people feel loved and liked by their leaders, they’re willing to overlook some differences in culture.”

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264. “It is not the role of government or any central planner to formulate the final distributions of wealth and income.”

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265. “Tesla is a great case study for how a company can effectively penetrate and succeed in a really established industry.”

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266. “If order for a currency to be effective, it has to be stable. People can accept varying levels of volatility regarding their investments. But no one is willing to accept volatility in regard to the currency they use.”

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267. “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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268. “Time is not money. Time is the space where money is earned and measured. Wealth minded people aim to maximize how much value they create and minimize the time it takes to create that value.”

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269. “A good investment is a productive investment.”

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270. “Our Investments should be consistent with our values.”

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271. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we are excited to invest in the evolution of a lot of different industries from IP to E-commerce to Transportation to Real Estate and more. But in every case, the goal is to add value and make things better. We are an investment company with soul and with purpose.”

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272. “Investment activities should inherently spread value and inherently spread prosperity. Investments should naturally result in a wide scope of people and ecosystems experiencing benefit.”

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273. “In nature, waste does not exist. There is only production and consumption; there is only creation and utilization. Everything that’s produced is efficiently consumed. Everything that’s created is efficiently utilized. And this cyclicality results in growth and in profit. The same should be true of each business, and the same should be true of an economy.”

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274. “Blockchain technology will be critical to the next phase of human civilization.”

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275. “When we’re talking about businesses adapting to change, it’s not just about the processes and systems but also about people and their ability to practice new relationships, methods and behaviors.”

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276. “Florida is a place for innovation, for prosperity, for pioneering.”

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277. “Nature doesn’t have puts on one side and calls on the other side of the same things, nor does it waste energy betting against the same life it works to cultivate. Nature doesn’t insure high risk gambles by trying to be both the casino and the player. Instead, nature insures capital and profits through a variety of complimentary approaches. At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to emulate nature in this way with how we approach investing and asset management.”

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278. “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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279. “People talk a lot about the importance of equity in an economy. In a permaculture economy, equity comes natural.”

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280. “An economic ecosystem that disrespects natural ecosystems will be disrespected by natural ecosystems.”

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281. “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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282. “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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283. “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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284. “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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285. “My goal is for Mayflower-Plymouth to have the most Assets Under Management than every other Asset Management company.”

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286. “Good cities cultivate welcoming business environments.”

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287. “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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288. “Value earned is according to value provided.”

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289. “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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290. “Both wealth and poverty tend to themselves.”

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

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

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

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295. “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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296. “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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297. “Investment Portfolios should be actively managed.”

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298. “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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299. “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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300. “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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