Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “Capitalism embraces linear and singular value chains whereas Permaculture Economics embraces value networks and multiplicative value effects.”

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253. “The economy is always changing. So your business should always be changing. Managing a business includes adapting to change, evolving with change and sometimes pioneering those changes and evolutions.”

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254. “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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255. “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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256. “After you’ve created value, the next part of building wealth is being a good receiver. In the same way that a good phone must be able to receive wi-fi frequencies, a good person must be open to receive the frequencies of wealth. It is good to give, and it is also good to receive.”

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

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

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261. “I’m so grateful – the love me and my daughter Chaya share is so powerful and so potent and so pure. What we give each other is unconditional and unrestrained love. We pour that love into each other, and we embrace that love from each other with thankful hearts. So much so, that parts of ourselves live within the other. Nothing and no one could separate us. Nothing and no one could jeapordize our love. That’s the magnitude of our daddy daughter love. That’s me and Chaya.”

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

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263. “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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264. “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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265. “Permaculture Economics is about designing an economic ecosystem of maximized productivity.”

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266. “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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267. “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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268. “Reciprocity is key in a Permaculture Economy.”

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269. “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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270. “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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271. “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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272. “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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273. “Find a few things to be grateful for today.”

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274. “Productivity is about turning valuable inputs into valuable outputs. Individual people are more productive when all the elements of the permaculture economy are at work in their lives. When individuals are productive, then businesses become productive. When businesses become productive, the nation becomes productive.”

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275. “Prosperous families lead to prosperous nations.”

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276. “The Bahamas is becoming a leading nation when it comes to Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency.”

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277. “People can tell when a leader disciplines with the power of love versus when a leader disciplines with a love for power.”

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278. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we have a unique approach to minimizing risk in our portfolios. We approach risk holistically.”

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279. “In a Permaculture Economy, there is functionally no waste because the waste from every one is a resource for another. All of every ones output provides value to others input. All that is produced is consumed.”

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280. “Cars are evolving to match the new paradigm. Soon, things like steering wheels, pedals and rear-view mirrors will seem ancient. More practically, we will all be better able to optimize our time and attention to focus on more important tasks, family, work, and self care.”

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281. “A good business adds value not only to individual people, but also to systems and networks of people. A good business has a multiplicative value effect.”

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282. “It’s good to always think good thoughts about money. Think loving thoughts about money. Think joyful thoughts about money. Think of money and smile and feel the joy of having so much money. And fill every atom your body with that feeling. This is true wealth.”

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283. “Mayflower-Plymouth is not only a company, it’s also an ecosystem.”

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

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286. “Every school should be a hub of creativity.”

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287. “In nature, capital is stewarded and not merely used. Permaculture Economics shares this stewardship approach to capital.”

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288. “How do you design a garden. Well the intentional placement of boundaries and the intentional facilitation of interactions has a lot to do with it. The same is true in an economic ecosystem. The intentional placement of boundaries and the intentional facilitation of interactions has a lot to do with the success of an economic ecosystem. This is one reason why Permaculture Economics is so effective.”

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289. “Only a wise and prudent people who are spiritually evolved can be trusted to govern themselves.”

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290. “Investing, like spirituality, has a lot to do with the flow of energy.”

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291. “The eyes should be washed out with clean water every morning of every day.”

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292. “Look at nature. The most urgent priority is the stewardship of capital.”

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

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

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298. “Free money most often costs too much.”

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299. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we enjoy growing and creating wealth with our Assets Under Management.”

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300. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we’re helping businesses and cities make significant improvements with our management consulting services. And for that, we’re making the world a better place. And we’re making a lot of money – many millions of dollars – by helping others and making their lives better.”

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