Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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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352. “A good investment is a productive investment.”

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353. “Florida is a place for innovation, for prosperity, for pioneering.”

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354. “Nature doesn’t have puts on one side and calls on the other side of the same things, nor does it waste energy betting against the same life it works to cultivate. Nature doesn’t insure high risk gambles by trying to be both the casino and the player. Instead, nature insures capital and profits through a variety of complimentary approaches. At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to emulate nature in this way with how we approach investing and asset management.”

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355. “If you approach business thinking that you sell products or services, you will eventually become irrelevant to the marketplace. But if you approach business thinking that what you really sell is value, you will always be relevant to the marketplace.”

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356. “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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357. “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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358. “Si quieres tener un negocio rentable, necesitas tener un negocio eficiente.”

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

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361. “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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362. “A good business adapts it’s strategy and approach as the economy continuously evolves.”

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363. “In todays complex economy, managing a business or company can be nuanced and complicated, but the fundamentals remain the same. Create value, communicate value, sell value. There may be a thousand other things to consider and specific tasks to do, but the fundamentals remain and they remain vital. Create value, communicate value, sell value.”

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364. “People buy from businesses for many reasons. Among those reasons include: favorable price, favorable accessibility, demonstrated shared values, label identification, and more. The more reasons you can give people to buy from your business, the better sales numbers your business will experience.”

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

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366. “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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367. “It’s very important that municipalities employ effective communication. Citizens deserve to be informed of the ROI they’re getting for their tax dollars.”

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

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

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372. “Liquidity equals freedom.”

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373. “One of the major prompts for businesses implementing change is the evolution of technology. As new technologies emerge or new use cases emerge for existing technologies; markets are forced to reorganize and therefore businesses are prompted to reorganize in response to that.”

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374. “Only when people agree on goals can they agree on methods. Only when people agree on the destination can they agree on the route. Only when people agree on the past and present facts can they cooperate to co-create new and mutually desirable facts.”

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375. “In any economic ecosystem whereby things are measured primarily according to their present gross utility; it becomes tolerable and even profitable to create, sell and buy products and services which cause net future harm even as they provide present gross utility. This is why a permaculture economy is superior to every other economic ecosystem.”

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376. “How is transformation built into your company’s corporate structure? This is an important question to answer if you want the company to remain relevant throughout market changes.”

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377. “A business is an ensemble of people. The energies, attitudes and personalities of employees come together and form the energy, attitude and personality of the business.”

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378. “Starting a business is risky. But with every risk, there are substantial rewards. Successful entrepreneurs learn to keep their minds focused on the rewards.”

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379. “I am a value adder. My contributions improve peoples lives and I do it with ease and consistency. Therefore, I am a money magnet and money flows into my life with ease and consistency.”

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380. “High ESG standards are especially important in large municipal projects.”

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381. “I believe in Chipotle. They have great tasting and nutritious food. And they’re also a great case study for business efficiency and business resiliency. The company has no long term debt, a loyal customer base, it owns and operates all of it’s stores, it has a clear business model and a clear growth path. They’ve got good company culture and they live by a set of values that earn the respect of their customers. In so many ways Chipotle is superior to it’s peers in the restaurant industry.”

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382. “There is a lot of money in Africa. There’s a lot of value being created by the people of Africa, from Egypt to Ghana to Zambia and everywhere in between. Ideas are flowing from African minds, innovations are emerging from African intellect, African businesses are providing solutions and valuable products and services. We are seeing it now and we will see it even more as the century progresses. As an investor, I’m putting big bets on Africa.”

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383. “Mayflower-Plymouth will be one of the most significant investment companies of this century.”

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384. “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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385. “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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386. “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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387. “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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388. “Both wealth and poverty tend to themselves.”

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

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

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391. “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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392. “Investment Portfolios should be actively managed.”

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393. “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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394. “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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395. “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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396. “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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397. “Trust is vital. In order for investors to have us steward their capital, a prerequisite is that they trust us.”

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

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

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

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