Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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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352. “Prosperous families lead to prosperous nations.”

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

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

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356. “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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357. “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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358. “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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359. “Mayflower-Plymouth is not only a company, it’s also an ecosystem.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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368. “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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369. “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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370. “Gratitude is a very effective medicine for all kinds of problems.”

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

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

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

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374. “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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375. “One sure way to increase a businesses profits is to implement a process improvement program. When a business audits it’s internal processes and extracts waste from those processes, the result is inevitably more time or money being leftover.”

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376. “How your business makes your customers feel has a direct correlation to how much money they are willing to spend with your business and the promptness with which they spend money with your business. You should make your customers feel welcome, make them feel appreciated, make them feel respected. And show customers that your business is valuable by ensuring that you and every employee treats the business with care and respect.”

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377. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we view the world through the lens of Capital.”

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378. “Everybody has problems. There’s no need to be ashamed of the problems you’re experiencing. There’s no need to hide them or pretend like your life is perfect. It’s actually better to expose your problems because only when problems are exposed can solutions find them. Only when problems are exposed can they be solved. I learned this lesson the hard way.”

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379. “Denial of unpleasant facts is a cancer to resolving crises. Manifesting has its place, spiritual work has its place... but those things are even more effective when paired with practicality and realism. Acknowledge the unpleasant facts, then utilize whichever resources will eliminate them.”

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380. “Good cities cultivate welcoming business environments.”

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381. “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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382. “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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383. “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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384. “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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385. “Being Bahamian, Panamanian and US American allows me to have a very unique perspective on the Americas, on the world, and on global commerce. I think big and I think holistically. And I’ve embedded that way of thinking into Mayflower-Plymouth.”

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386. “Capitalism emphasizes the utility of capital. Permaculture Economics emphasizes the stewardship of Capital.”

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

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388. “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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389. “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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390. “The reward of productivity and personal achievement is a fulfilling life.”

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

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393. “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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394. “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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395. “Invertir tiene mejores resultados cuando se aprende de la naturaleza.”

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396. “Jobs make the world go around.”

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397. “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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398. “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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399. “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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400. “Entrepreneurship is about service, not self.”

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