Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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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402. “In order to retain money in savings, you have to feel in your subconscious mind that you deserve to keep the money.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

403. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

404. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

405. “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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406. “Reciprocity is key in a Permaculture Economy.”

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

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409. “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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410. “How your business makes your customers feel has a direct correlation to how much money they are willing to spend with your business and the promptness with which they spend money with your business. You should make your customers feel welcome, make them feel appreciated, make them feel respected. And show customers that your business is valuable by ensuring that you and every employee treats the business with care and respect.”

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411. “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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412. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we view the world through the lens of Capital.”

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413. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

414. “Everybody has problems. There’s no need to be ashamed of the problems you’re experiencing. There’s no need to hide them or pretend like your life is perfect. It’s actually better to expose your problems because only when problems are exposed can solutions find them. Only when problems are exposed can they be solved. I learned this lesson the hard way.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

415. “Denial of unpleasant facts is a cancer to resolving crises. Manifesting has its place, spiritual work has its place... but those things are even more effective when paired with practicality and realism. Acknowledge the unpleasant facts, then utilize whichever resources will eliminate them.”

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416. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we’re helping businesses and cities make significant improvements with our management consulting services. And for that, we’re making the world a better place. And we’re making a lot of money – many millions of dollars – by helping others and making their lives better.”

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

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418. “One sure way to increase a businesses profits is to implement a process improvement program. When a business audits it’s internal processes and extracts waste from those processes, the result is inevitably more time or money being leftover.”

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419. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

420. “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.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

421. “The person who does not state her expectations to the cosmos, often receives things of no use to her soul. Clarity of expectation attunes attraction.”

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422. “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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423. “Thoughts of wealth create a wealthy life. Thoughts of poverty create the conditions of poverty. Thoughts of every kind create.”

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424. “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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425. “Small Businesses bring cities to life.”

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426. “Mayflower-Plymouth is a leader in Capital Stewardship.”

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427. “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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428. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we look at the businesses in our Private Equity portfolio as an ecosystem of businesses.”

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429. “If you’re a good person and you add a lot of value, you deserve to have a lot of money.”

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430. “It’s good to love money. It’s the hatred of money and the lack of money that cause problems.”

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431. “Money loves efficiency.”

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432. “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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433. “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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434. “The eyes should be washed out with clean water every morning of every day.”

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

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437. “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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438. “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.”

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

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440. “Investing, like spirituality, has a lot to do with the flow of energy.”

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441. “Liquidity equals freedom.”

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442. “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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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