Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Quotes

“Mayflower-Plymouth is to businesses what mycorrhizae is to trees.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Nature is great at hedging. All kinds of natural disasters can hit a forest - from hurricanes to heat waves to floods to freezing temperatures - and yet the forest can remain intact and continue to thrive year after year and decade after decade. At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to hedge our funds the way nature hedges - by cultivating resilience through systems design.”
― Hendrith Smith

“I expect every business to have a multiplicative value effect.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Nature has mastered compounding. At Mayflower-Plymouth we want our capital, profits and growth to compound the way compounding happens in thriving forests.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Think of any product or service and beneath the surface you’ll see it’s just a value exchange.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“Products and services of every kind are really just platforms for value creation.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“Business is really an altruistic thing. Only by serving others can we serve ourselves.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“We live in a time of consistent and persistent change. As new technologies emerge and new sociology-political realities take form, the economy and the context of business changes also.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“When you put your business' roots into the Mayflower network, you're plugging into a network based on permaculture design principles. Our ecosystem is unique and our ecosystem offers unique value.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Capital markets need to reward human progress in addition to profits. The two can be co-collaborators - human progress can amplify profits and profits can amplify human progress.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Mayflower-Plymouth will be the largest Capital Management Company in the world by 2040.”
― Hendrith Smith

“As employees, executives and entrepreneurs — let’s stay humble.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, 4 Business Lessons From Jesus: A businessmans interpretation of Jesus' teachings, applied in a business context.

“There’s nothing more disastrous than unemployed capital.”
― Hendrith Smith

“By combining supply chains, we maximize space utilized per vehicle, we streamline routes, we remove waste from the system, we do more in less time, and we provide superior value to the businesses in the network.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Ideas are valuable in business and they should be treated as such.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Vision is integral to leadership. A good leader must have a clear vision for the group of people they lead, and they must communicate that vision to that group of people effectively.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“Leadership is about guiding others on a journey from one state of being to a better state of being. People only follow leaders when they trust in that persons ability to guide them on this journey.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“True leaders admit their mistakes, learn from their mistakes, and evolve so that the same mistakes are not repeated.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“People are really buying the value created by the product or service, as opposed to the product or service itself.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“We must be good consumers of capital – using it to create maximum value for ourselves, our family, our customers – that’s productivity.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“We prioritize integrity and honesty when it comes to our Assets Under Management.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Capital must be consistently accumulated and compounded - that's the expectation.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Everyone our company touches should experience a net value-add as a result of our investment activities.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“All stakeholders should benefit from the capital we allocate in our portfolio.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“As we think about business, it’s important that we think from a value adding perspective.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“Jesus taught us to be good stewards of capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, 4 Business Lessons From Jesus: A businessmans interpretation of Jesus' teachings, applied in a business context.

“When things are orderly, it reduces the possibility of waste. When things are orderly, it maximizes efficiency. Eliminating waste and maximizing efficiency both lend themselves to profit.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“We believe that active management and passive management are not necessarily contradictory ideas.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Capital must be stewarded — it must be acted upon with a spirit of responsibility.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“People expect their leaders to present and communicate a vision of a better way of being.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Business Leadership: The Key Elements