Top 400 Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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.”

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402. “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.”

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

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404. “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.”

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

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

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407. “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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408. “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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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. “Cities should be leveraging technologies in service to residents as businesses do in service to customers.”

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411. “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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412. “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.”

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

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

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

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416. “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.”

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

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418. “Stewardship of capital is at the heart of permaculture economics.”

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419. “Anytime there is a disassociation between the producer of value and the consumer of value – there will be waste, a lack of economic empathy, and a lack of productivity.”

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420. “Money loves efficiency.”

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421. “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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422. “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.”

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423. “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.”

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424. “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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425. “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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426. “Small Businesses bring cities to life.”

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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. “Things nature is good at include – organizing matter in a way that is multi functional, mass customization, network adaptation to circumstance, responsive evolution, growth as a mechanism for construction, decentralization, data management and asset management. Regardless of what kind of business we are talking about, there’s something vital to learn from nature.”

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429. “Some people like to hate on big companies because they’re big. I like to learn from big companies because they’re big. In business, size is a measurement of success. It’s certainly not the only measurement. But it is an important measurement.”

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430. “I watch Bloomberg because I can trust that the people I see on Bloomberg will present me with actionable and insightful information that will help me be a better leader in business.”

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431. “Disorder breeds poverty. Anywhere there is disorder, there will also be waste. And waste is one of the many causes poverty.”

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432. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we take our Assets Under Management very seriously. We see ourselves as stewards of capital and we feel a profound sense of responsibility with the capital we steward.”

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433. “AI is going to allow civilization-scale capital stewardship on a whole nother level.”

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434. “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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435. “Our Investments should be consistent with our values.”

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436. “At Mayflower-Plymouth, we are excited to invest in the evolution of a lot of different industries from IP to E-commerce to Transportation to Real Estate and more. But in every case, the goal is to add value and make things better. We are an investment company with soul and with purpose.”

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437. “Investment activities should inherently spread value and inherently spread prosperity. Investments should naturally result in a wide scope of people and ecosystems experiencing benefit.”

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438. “Blockchain technology will be critical to the next phase of human civilization.”

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439. “An economic ecosystem that disrespects natural ecosystems will be disrespected by natural ecosystems.”

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440. “When you’re buying from me and I’m buying from you and we’re all buying from each other, there’s flow within the ecosystem. And businesses in our ecosystem can tap into a portion of that flow to facilitate liquidity for their specific business.”

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441. “Like with pure Capitalism – in a Permaculture Economy, trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit and not by the state. This is essential to the success of an economic ecosystem.”

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442. “My goal is for Mayflower-Plymouth to have the most Assets Under Management than every other Asset Management company.”

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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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