Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “There’s a difference between managing a business and leading a business. They require two different skill sets.”

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

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

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404. “Jobs make the world go around.”

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405. “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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406. “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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407. “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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408. “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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409. “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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410. “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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411. “Cities should be leveraging technologies in service to residents as businesses do in service to customers.”

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

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413. “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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414. “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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415. “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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416. “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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417. “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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418. “Si quieres tener un negocio rentable, necesitas tener un negocio eficiente.”

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419. “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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420. “In closed loop systems, flow facilitates flow. Liquidity facilitates liquidity.”

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421. “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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422. “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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423. “Prosperous families lead to prosperous nations.”

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

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

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426. “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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427. “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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428. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we have a unique approach to minimizing risk in our portfolios. We approach risk holistically.”

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429. “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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430. “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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431. “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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432. “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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433. “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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434. “In order to retain money in savings, you have to feel in your subconscious mind that you deserve to keep the money.”

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435. “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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436. “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.”

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437. “There’s a big difference between teaching and instructing. Telling kids what to do and giving them assignments is not teaching, that’s instructing. On the contrary, teaching includes helping students to cultivate talents, foster understanding, and develop skills. Anyone can instruct, but teaching is a gift.”

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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