Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 9 of 9

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

402. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

403. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we treat municipal bond holding as both a path to profit and an investment into social progress.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

404. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

405. “Kids inherently love to learn. Adults either cultivate this love and multiply it, or they cause them to throw it away. You can be sure that if you have kid in your class who seems to despise learning, it is not of their own error but of the perversion of the school they have attended or the home where they reside.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

407. “The Subjectivity of Value: Value is determined by individual buyers and sellers and not by government. There is no product or service which has a fixed or definite value. Because circumstances, scenarios, and objectives vary indefinitely, value also varies indefinitely. Value is subjective in the same way that needs are subjective.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

408. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

409. “If you run a business, it’s essential that you love whatever the business is selling. What you have with the business is similar to what you have with any other relationship – it will experience more success when love and passion is poured in.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

411. “To thrive in business, it’s good to have a clear understanding of the laws that affect business.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

412. “Managing waste is a really bad goal. Only an inefficient system would aim to manage waste. A better goal is making waste non-existent by designing the system itself, through it’s participants, to continually upcycle resources.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

413. “The global economy and all of its markets are constantly changing. In order to survive and thrive as an individual in business these days, you’ve got to be always updating your mental models. You’ve got to be always updating the software of your mind and spirit so that you remain capable of seeing the new ways value is being measured and exchanged; and so that you remain capable to plugging in to and profiting from the new ways that value is being exchanged.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

414. “Careers are not defined by age or employment status. Careers are defined by consistent value creation. So if you’re 12 years old and you consistently create engineering value, you are an engineer.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

417. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

418. “Nature ensures efficiency through self-sustaining systems. Businesses should do the same.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

420. “Business is inherently altruistic – to profit, a business must add value to peoples lives and It must solve peoples problems. It does this while creating income and wealth for employees and owners. This is what I call a ‘Multiplicative Value Effect.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

422. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

423. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

424. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

425. “Mayflower-Plymouth is not only a company, it’s also an ecosystem.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

426. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

427. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

431. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

432. “As more companies comitt to Corporate Social Responsibility, the result is the emergence of a Permaculture Economy and a more prosperous world.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

433. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

434. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

435. “The reward of productivity and personal achievement is a fulfilling life.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

436. “Trust is a prerequisite for financial transacting.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

437. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

440. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

441. “When considering the acquisition of new sources of revenue, the business must account for the costs that must be incurred prior to the acquisition, and the costs associated with the maintenance of that source of revenue.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

442. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

443. “To key to classroom behavior management is to have a structured system in place whereby good behaviors are actively and abundantly rewarded, and bad behaviors are promptly and efficiently punished. Rewards should be like the air, ever present and always lingering. Punishment should be like a thunderstorm that is obvious and inconvenient yet quick, temporary and not abusive. The predominant theme of classroom management should be good behaviors and continuous rewards.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr