Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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.”

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252. “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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253. “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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254. “Permaculture Economics is about designing an economic ecosystem of maximized productivity.”

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255. “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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256. “Find a few things to be grateful for today.”

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257. “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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258. “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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259. “In today’s global economy, it’s essential that businesses efficiently execute on or plug into logistics.”

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260. “Effective scaling requires clear strategy. Nature has provided us with a portfolio of growth applications to learn from and our job as business leaders is to be strategic with that.”

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261. “There’s no age mimimum to entrepreneurship. Kids can be entrepreneurs, kids can be executives. Ultimately succeeding in business is about the skill and capacity to add value. If you have that skill and capacity to add value as a kid, then you’ll succeed in business.”

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262. “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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263. “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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264. “Everything matters. Let’s treat the so called little things with importance just as we do the so called big things. Because the little things have a way of being connected and interdependent in such a way as to often be just as big as the big things.”

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265. “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.”

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266. “Business is about making the world a better place.”

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267. “Insurance is important in business. It just makes sense that we share risk for low probability high impact events.”

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268. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we treat municipal bond holding as both a path to profit and an investment into social progress.”

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269. “Kids inherently love to learn. Adults either cultivate this love and multiply it, or they cause them to throw it away. You can be sure that if you have kid in your class who seems to despise learning, it is not of their own error but of the perversion of the school they have attended or the home where they reside.”

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270. “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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271. “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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272. “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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273. “As AI technology matures paired with the continued implementation of Blockchain technology, I think we’ll see a lot of analyst, educator and lawyer jobs for example be repositioned into the consulting industry. Consulting will pretty much be a broad category for all jobs involved in the gathering, utilization and sale of actionable data.”

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274. “Development goes where capital flows.”

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275. “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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276. “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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277. “Value earned is according to value provided.”

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

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279. “As leaders, sometimes we have to be willing to be temporarily disliked in order to be permanently loved.”

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280. “Investing has the best results when you learn from nature.”

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281. “When money is pooled together, it has a greater impact. A million dollars has more impact than one hundred thousand dollars. One hundred ETH has more impact than ten ETH. The more money, the greater the impact.”

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282. “Assets are like trees and money is like fruits. The goal is for our trees to produce as much fruit as possible and for us to enjoy in that abundance of fruit.”

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

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

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287. “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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288. “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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289. “The reward of productivity and personal achievement is a fulfilling life.”

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290. “The proper use case of tokens is to more precisely control behaviors within naturally occurring social ecosystems. Any attempt to transcend beyond the small naturally occurring ecosystem is naive at best and dishonest at most.”

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291. “It’s ok to spend money, especially on the necessities and the normal pleasures of life. You should spend money with a knowing that as it flows out, it will flow right back in. Spending is just as natural as income. Income is the breathing in. And breathing out is either investing, spending, or saving. If you don’t breathe out, it will cause blockages that turn your money stagnant. We need the inhale and the exhale. It’s all about balance.”

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292. “Poor people have a strange affinity to wastefulness. But people who have wealth consciousness have an innate and unerring disgust for unprofitability. And so, poor people tend to acquire more poverty, and wealthy people tend to acquire more wealth.”

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293. “Entrepreneurship is about service, not self.”

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294. “I think Cryptocurrency tokens are only valuable in small naturally occurring social ecosystems where they serve as a reward for adding value exclusively in that ecosystem and where they serve as a method of acquiring value exclusively in that ecosystem. To transfer purchasing power out of that small naturally occurring ecosystem would require a conversion of the token into a government fiat currency.”

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295. “Technology has always been and will always be a disruptive force in business. And it will always be the case that businesses that are rigid and stagnant and unimaginative will die. And businesses that are adaptive and resilient and imaginative will continue on living.”

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296. “Invertir tiene mejores resultados cuando se aprende de la naturaleza.”

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297. “Jobs make the world go around.”

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298. “Nature ensures efficiency through self-sustaining systems. Businesses should do the same.”

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299. “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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300. “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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