Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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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352. “Cities should be leveraging technologies in service to residents as businesses do in service to customers.”

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

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354. “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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355. “In the context of the new transportation system, Drivers Licenses will become mostly irrelevant and unnecessary. When everything is autonomous, the need for drivers licenses as a safety feature of the system will just not even make sense.”

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356. “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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357. “If your adding value and helping other people in some way, then money should be flowing into your life with ease.”

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358. “Before we invest, we ask ourselves ‘What kind of value is this business creating and how do its customers and prospective customers appraise that value?”

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359. “Gratitude amplifies wealth.”

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360. “Si quieres tener un negocio rentable, necesitas tener un negocio eficiente.”

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361. “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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362. “In closed loop systems, flow facilitates flow. Liquidity facilitates liquidity.”

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363. “Una empresa es como un ser vivo. Necesita ser cuidado, amado, administrado, nutrido y dirigido.”

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364. “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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365. “When your company is contemplating change, it’s important to take inventory of employees perception. Does everyone in the company understand the need for making the changes being contemplated? And is everyone in the company committed to the changes? These are important considerations.”

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366. “Prosperous families lead to prosperous nations.”

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367. “Municipalities should be prioritizing data in the same way that businesses are prioritizing data.”

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

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369. “It’s good for good and spiritual people to have a lot of money. Because when good and spiritual people have a lot of money, we do good and spiritually aligned things with the money.”

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370. “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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371. “The Bahamas should be positioning itself as a key strategic link in the global supply chain and the global movement of resources. We have a variety of strategic advantages along these lines, that if leveraged will allow us to add value to global commerce in very unique ways and then profit from the value we add collectively as a people.”

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

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373. “Fame is worthless unless it is a platform to glorify God. Because ultimately, Gods name is the only name that endures. And his Will is the only Will that prevails.”

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374. “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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375. “When planning projects and issuing revenue bonds, cities should assess the projects total impact to the urban ecosystem.”

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

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378. “To make good business decisions, you need to be routinely extracting actionable data from the businesses processes. Analyzing the data and organizing it in alignment with the businesses goals will allow for greater clarity in making decisions.”

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379. “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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380. “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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381. “Mayflower-Plymouth will have more than $55 Billion dollars in Assets Under Management by 2030. By then we may be measuring primarily in ETH though.”

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382. “In order to retain money in savings, you have to feel in your subconscious mind that you deserve to keep the money.”

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383. “Biomimicry is critical in regard to using design as a way to solve problems in business. Biological ecosystems have invented solution after solution to all kinds of problems. The key is to learn to see nature through nature’s eyes, and to speak nature’s language and then to establish a continuous translation between biological ecosystems and human ecosystems.”

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384. “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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385. “There’s a big difference between teaching and instructing. Telling kids what to do and giving them assignments is not teaching, that’s instructing. On the contrary, teaching includes helping students to cultivate talents, foster understanding, and develop skills. Anyone can instruct, but teaching is a gift.”

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386. “Each of us is a spiritual being that has invested in a material experience. And from this material experience, we expect a substantial ROI. If we are intentional, the things of matter can be complimentary to the spirit.”

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387. “Trust is vital. In order for investors to have us steward their capital, a prerequisite is that they trust us.”

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

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

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390. “Peace is not really the absence of conflict, but rather, It’s the hosting of the right conditions for conflicts’ continual and effective resolution.”

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391. “Today is the day to live dreams and go for goals.”

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392. “Risk is amplified if the business doesn’t have clear title to its assets.”

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393. “Business ideas are sensitive to market conditions, culture, technological development and other things. What maybe was a bad business idea ten years ago may be a great business idea today. Give it a try. Mayflower Plymouth.”

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394. “Complaint is a cancer to wealth. But gratitude is an amplifier of wealth.”

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395. “When you invest in something, you establish an energetic connection with it. So be careful what you invest in, and invest wisely.”

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396. “Transitioning a company from present state to future state is not just about the company at large, but also about every single employee and customer and partner also transitioning from present state to future state. We have to consider the macro and the micro if the transition is going to be successful.”

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397. “Wealth is not only about money. It is also about living a full, vibrant, purpose-filled and Godly life.”

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398. “Profits are the result of productivity. Productivity is defined as ‘the effectiveness of effort as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.’ Profit exists within this margin. Therefore, any desire to increase profits must include reasonable actions to improve productivity.”

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399. “Reciprocity is key in a Permaculture Economy.”

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400. “A large tree cannnot sustain itself without the support of an ecosystem of various sized life forms. In the same way, large companies cannot sustain themselves without an ecosystem of various sized companies.”

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