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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
― Steve Jobs

“Every tree in the forest knows about creating value, and about reciprocity and about stewardship. And every tree in the forest knows about profit and about investing and about ROI. This is why I study and learn from nature.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“There is a spirituality to money. Things like theft and fraud and dishonesty will never produce good long-term monetary results. And the ROI for those things is always a deficit.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Investing is a special thing. In terms of functionality, almost anyone invest. But in terms of achieving the results of long-term profit and sustainable growth, only some people have the talent or skill sets for that. It’s like baseball for example… anyone can swing a bat at a ball. But only a few guys make it to the big league, and even fewer become world champs. These days there are so many apps and platforms for individual investing, but that doesn’t mean everyone is achieving the same results. There are great investors, good investors, and bad investors. A professional investor can achieve exponential growth and profit. A professional investor understands markets and industries and can account for both the traditional and the new.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Investing has the best results when you learn from nature.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Investing has the best results when you learn from nature. Planet Earth has been alive for much longer than you or I and and it this thing figured out.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Money has a spiritual correlation. What we do with money and how we impact the world through our spending, saving and investing…. It has spiritual consequences.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Anybody can throw a basketball toward a hoop. But only a relative few can exercise the athletic prowess of dribbling down the court, account for and surpass a variety of obstacles, and actually get the ball into the hoop consistently and repetitively contributing toward an ultimate win for the team.

In the same way, anyone can open an investment account with M1 or Acorns or Robinhood or Cashapp… or even with the big guys like Ameritrade or Fidelity or Charles Schwabb or Morgan Stanley… but only a relative few can navigate an ever-changing economic paradigm, overcome various financial, legal and social obstacles, maintaining alignment with values, and achieve substantial growth and profits - contributing toward an ultimate win for the team. It’s better to hire a professional investor if you expect professional results.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“There are enough resources in the world for everyone to experience some variable degree of wealth. And from a spiritual perspective, there are no limitations, only abundance.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“A good investment is like a good fruit tree. From its conception, it grows exponentially larger consistently and reliably. It’s required input in a small percentage of its output. It regularly gives back to the broader ecosystem, helping multiple other lives to prosper. And it produces an abundance of fruit for the enjoyment of its owner.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“The greatest investment you can make is in yourself. Invest in the resources and opportunities you need for you to be your best self. When you are your best self, and I am my best self, and everyone else is their best self…. Then everything else will be subsequently better. That’s some great ROI right there.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“A good investment is a productive investment.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Ultimately, Investing is about holistic ROI. It’s not about just owning stocks or crypto or flipping for quick income. When we talk about holistic ROI, we are looking at our long term profit, short term profit, income security, cash flow, social impact, environmental impact, spiritual impact, stability of the permaculture economy, and more.

That’s how we see it at Mayflower-Plymouth.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Our Investments should be consistent with our values.

It’s simple. If we value health, we shouldn’t have our money plugged into businesses and systems that promote disease. If we value spirituality, we shouldn’t have our money plugged into businesses and systems that promote a perversion of the spirit.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Our Investments should be consistent with our values.

If we value the environment, we should have our money invested in businesses and systems that improve the condition of the environment and add value to nature. If we value health, we should have our money invested in businesses and systems that help people to live healthier lives in some way.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“With money comes responsibility. How we spend and invest our money has an impact on ourselves and on so many other people.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Con el dinero viene la responsabilidad. La forma en que gastamos e invertimos nuestro dinero tiene un impacto en nosotros mismos y en muchas otras personas.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“We all have a responsibility to be efficient stewards of resources. That’s also what good investing is about - being an efficient steward of resources.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Todos tenemos la responsabilidad de ser administradores eficientes de los recursos. De eso también se trata una buena inversión: ser un administrador eficiente de los recursos.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Mayflower-Plymouth will be one of the most significant investment companies of this century.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“When you invest in something, you establish an energetic connection with it. So be careful what you invest in, and invest wisely.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The first investment priority for each of us should be our home. We should each Invest in making our house feel like home. We should Invest making sure our home is a place where we feel loved and safe - a home that is an energetic incubator of our prosperity.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The concept of ‘spending’ is problematic. When we are functioning with intention and wisdom, the only thing we really do with money is invest. There are small investments, and big investments. There are good investments and bad investments…The ROI we get for some investments is a product or service - the groceries in exchange for money, or the the car wash in exchange for money. And the ROI we get for other investments may be additional money in the form of interest or dividends, while the ROI in other cases is just a sense of fulfillment after maybe giving to charity or buying a gift for your spouse, or paying for your kids tuition, or creating art.

When we look at it from this perspective, we get rid of the expectation that sending money out is a loss, and we replace it with an expectation that sending money out will always result in an ROI of some kind. Everything is an investment when we act with intention and wisdom.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Investing is a special thing. In terms of functionality, almost anyone can invest. But in terms of achieving the results of long-term profit and sustainable growth, only some people have the talent or skill sets for that. It’s like baseball for example… anyone can swing a bat at a ball. But only a few people make it to the big league, and even fewer become world champs. These days there are so many apps and platforms for individual investing, but that doesn’t mean everyone is achieving good results or ROI. There are great investors, good investors, and bad investors. A professional investor can achieve exponential growth and profit. A professional investor understands markets and industries and can account for both the traditional and the new.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“When we are talking about cash flow - once again, nature is a great teacher. Cash is simply the base resource with which most activities predicate. In nature, cash is symbolized by water. Rarely is anything in nature ever lacking water. Even in the deserts, the life forms that live and grow there have figured out ‘cash flow’ or ‘water flow’…. They’ve figured out how to manage the flow of water relative to the tasks and objectives which require its use. If a cactus in the desert can figure out how to manage the flow of water relative to the tasks and objectives which require its use… then we can figure out how to manage the flow of cash relative to the tasks and objectives which require its use. If nature can invest wisely, so can we.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Investing isn’t a game - It has a substantive impact on the living of life and the development of civilization. It’s not just about stock tickers and opening bells and timing buys and sells to get a quick profit in the gap…. It effects when and where houses are built, the quality of schools, the accessibility of organic food, the price of solar relative to gasoline…. Investments direct the development of civilization.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Investing, like spirituality, has a lot to do with energy, frequency and vibration. But it takes mastery to figure out how. And then even more mastery to apply the knowledge toward desirable results.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Investing, like spirituality, has a lot to do with the flow of energy.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Trading is not the same as investing. Trading includes a lot of fear, lack, and scarcity thinking. Traders aim to buy low and sell high in the quickest turnaround time possible, always fearful of potential outcomes and always needing to incessantly monitor the status of things and micromanage results. However, Investing includes a lot of faith, vision, trust, and endurance. Investors look at larger societal patterns and systems. Investors have wealth consciousness and they expect to earn exponentially larger profits over a longer timeframe.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr