Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Mayflower-Plymouth will be one of the most significant investment companies of this century.”

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352. “As a species, humans really need to be serious about directing our own evolution, choosing our own path, and becoming the best versions of ourselves.”

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353. “When your company is buying from my company and my company is buying from your company, there’s flow. And if a bunch of our companies are doing that, then that flow can be leveraged toward liquidity.”

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354. “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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355. “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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356. “Both wealth and poverty tend to themselves.”

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

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

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359. “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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360. “Investment Portfolios should be actively managed.”

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361. “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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362. “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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363. “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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364. “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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365. “Trust is vital. In order for investors to have us steward their capital, a prerequisite is that they trust us.”

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

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

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

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369. “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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370. “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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371. “It is not the role of government or any central planner to formulate the final distributions of wealth and income.”

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372. “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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373. “There’s a difference between managing a business and leading a business. They require two different skill sets.”

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374. “We should only make commitments we are able to honor faithfully.”

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375. “Teachers should encourage students’ creativity. That means that it’s okay for class to get a little wild sometimes. You can’t have creativity without getting a little wild sometimes. That means in our classrooms we should hear lively discussions, insightful debates, engaging conversations, exchanges of ideas, and informative play.”

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376. “If we desire to increase wealth in the world, we should not focus on the alleviation of poverty. To focus on poverty increases poverty. To focus on wealth increases wealth.”

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377. “As Asset Managers, our purpose is to grow wealth. Our clients should be wealthier because of our management. And society should be wealthier because of our investments. This is a priority at Mayflower-Plymouth.”

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378. “Cities should be leveraging technologies in service to residents as businesses do in service to customers.”

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379. “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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380. “With everything we do in business, it’s important that we always consider the ecological implications. And if we’re really doing things the Permaculture way, then it’s not just about factoring in ecological cost, but better yet ensuring that business processes and outputs actually add value to ecological and natural systems.”

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381. “Being an investor is very different than being an entrepreneur or businessperson. They require different skill sets. They aren’t the same.”

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382. “Leaders can’t afford to be resistant to change.”

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383. “Capital is a living substance and must be invested as such.”

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384. “The distribution of wealth and income is primarily the role and responsibility and freedom of individual people and businesses through their voluntary economic interaction with other people and businesses. And their voluntary exchange of economic value through products, services, and ideas. In this way, social mobility is maximized and a fluid class structure allows for both upward and downward economic movements; this is social justice.”

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385. “A business that’s struggling to make payroll is like a pair of parents struggling to feed the kids. It’s unacceptable.”

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386. “Stewardship of capital is at the heart of permaculture economics.”

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387. “Anytime there is a disassociation between the producer of value and the consumer of value – there will be waste, a lack of economic empathy, and a lack of productivity.”

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388. “Money loves efficiency.”

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389. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we care about profit and growth. And just as much we also care about things like the health of the earth, Whole Foods plant based or I-Tal living, vegan or vegetarian living, holistic education, spirituality, human rights, money equity, social cohesion, liberty, family, human health and more. To us, Investing is more than profit.”

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390. “When changes are being implemented in a company, it’s usually the case that the extent to which people are invested in the current status quo is the extent to which they will resist the proposed changes. So the key is to get everyone divested from the old status quo and invested in a new status quo.”

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391. “The business of education is the most influential business in existence. Teachers collectively influence the minds of everyone to ever live. There’s no one working in any company in any role that hasn’t been influenced by several teachers on their journey; teachers whose lessons equipped them to succeed in some way.”

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392. “If all you have is a dollar, invest it with the same care you would invest $100.00 dollars with, and with repetition your holdings will soon grow to $100.00 dollars. Then invest that$100.00 dollars with the same care you would invest $1,000.00 dollars with. Then invest the $1,000.00 dollars with the same care you would invest $1,000,000.00 dollars with. Money must be cared for from it’s smallest unit, as a child must be cared for from conception.”

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393. “Capitalism is great at facilitating the maximization of production – regarding efficiency only as it effects the profit of the producer and the profit of the buyer in any given transaction. But permaculture economics is great at facilitating the maximization of productivity – regarding efficiency more holistically and measuring according to multiplicative value effects.”

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394. “Small Businesses bring cities to life.”

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395. “Capital leveraging is something that takes place in natural ecosystems. For example, the trees leverage capital in service to the birds.”

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396. “Things nature is good at include – organizing matter in a way that is multi functional, mass customization, network adaptation to circumstance, responsive evolution, growth as a mechanism for construction, decentralization, data management and asset management. Regardless of what kind of business we are talking about, there’s something vital to learn from nature.”

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397. “Some people like to hate on big companies because they’re big. I like to learn from big companies because they’re big. In business, size is a measurement of success. It’s certainly not the only measurement. But it is an important measurement.”

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398. “I watch Bloomberg because I can trust that the people I see on Bloomberg will present me with actionable and insightful information that will help me be a better leader in business.”

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399. “Disorder breeds poverty. Anywhere there is disorder, there will also be waste. And waste is one of the many causes poverty.”

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400. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we take our Assets Under Management very seriously. We see ourselves as stewards of capital and we feel a profound sense of responsibility with the capital we steward.”

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