Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “In nature, capital is stewarded and not merely used. Permaculture Economics shares this stewardship approach to capital.”

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352. “A school that doesn’t cultivate creativity is a waste of the presence of youth, and an example of misallocated capital.”

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

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355. “Reliable tax revenue is vital to the fiscal wellbeing of municipalities.”

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356. “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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357. “I recommend every young entrepreneur do some gig work at least for research purposes. Get out there and work for Lyft or Uber or Instacart or whatever. These platforms allow a person to experience a direct conversion of value created to income earned, whereas most jobs and most entrepreneurial ventures have a lag. And the more intimately you understand value, the better.”

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358. “Permaculture Economics is about relationships and well designed economic communities which maximize productivity.”

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359. “A business is like a living being. It needs to be cared for, loved, stewarded, nurtured, and led.”

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

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361. “The real cost of something is its value in alternative uses. This truth always presents itself in prices. There is no benefit that may be gained without cost to the same individual who gained the benefit. There is no benefit that may be presented without cost to the same individual who present the benefit.”

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

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

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364. “Jobs make the world go around.”

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365. “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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366. “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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367. “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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368. “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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369. “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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370. “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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371. “Cities should be leveraging technologies in service to residents as businesses do in service to customers.”

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

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373. “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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374. “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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375. “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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376. “Every business should own, at minimum, a general liability insurance policy. The business needs to protect itself and mitigate against risk.”

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377. “I am an investor. And as an investor, I have the pleasure of being involved in a variety of industries and innovations. But being an investor, I get to stay focused on the big picture instead of the little details.”

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

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379. “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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380. “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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381. “Prosperous families lead to prosperous nations.”

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

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

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384. “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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385. “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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386. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we have a unique approach to minimizing risk in our portfolios. We approach risk holistically.”

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387. “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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388. “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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389. “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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390. “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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391. “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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392. “Si quieres tener un negocio rentable, necesitas tener un negocio eficiente.”

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

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

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

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

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399. “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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400. “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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