Investors Quotes

“When we invest, It’s about the big picture, and having a holistic approach to investing”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“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.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“I am an investor. And as an investor, I have the pleasure of being involved in a variety of industries and innovations. But being an investor, I get to stay focused on the big picture instead of the little details.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Investors are people with more money than time.
Employees are people with more time than money.
Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens.
Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money.
Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it.”
“Company culture is what goes without saying.
There are no real rules, only laws.
Success forgives all sins.
People who leak to you, leak about you.
Meritocracy is the propaganda we use to bless the charade.
Greed and vanity are the twin engines of bourgeois society.
Most managers are incompetent and maintain their jobs via inertia and politics.
Lawsuits are merely expensive feints in a well-scripted conflict narrative between corporate entities.
Capitalism is an amoral farce in which every player—investor, employee, entrepreneur, consumer—is complicit.”
― Antonio García Martínez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

“A balanced approach is attractive to top talent and investors who increasingly seek out companies with a strong sense of purpose beyond just profit.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“I like to use things in nature as analogous to the way we should use capital in a business and economic sense.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“Corporate governance involves its fair share of investor scrutiny, but transparent communication fosters confidence.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“Investors are facilitators of social progress.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Ultimately in investing, earnings need to outpace contributions.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“There’s a huge difference between an investor and a speculator. Wise investors place their faith in proven principles; essentials that prove consistent. Speculators know nothing about faith but they have a dozen flimsy wishes and wants for an unknown future.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Investors who have no real experience as entrepreneurs cannot engage in value investing to the fullest extent. You can’t think like an owner if you’ve never been one. And the extent to which you’ve been in business is the extent to which you can understand it.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Ultimately in investing, earnings need to outpace contributions. And it takes time. But the sooner that happens, the better.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Efficiency is as important to the management of a municipality as it is to the management of a business.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The skills we cherish as Freemasons — Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence and Justice — are skills that are very useful to me as an investor.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Having circularity in an economy allows municipalities to widen the margins between revenues and expenses.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The cities that are managed more like businesses are the cities that prosper.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Municipal Bond investment risk is substantially influenced by socio-politics.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“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

“Capital is a living substance and it is expected to grow and to multiply and to compound.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Being net value adders puts us better positioned for long-term growth and longevity – because in the long term, capital flows to net value adders.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Unforeseen events are precisely that: unforeseeable. So, timing the market is for biased investors.”
― Coreen T. Sol, Unbiased Investor: Reduce Financial Stress and Keep More of Your Money

“High ESG standards are especially important in large municipal projects offering revenue bonds.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The most successful startups are those that are able to balance the needs of their customers, employees, and investors, while staying true to their vision and values.”
― Justin Ho Guo Shun, The Art and Science of Startup

“Yes, capital is the oxygen in the life of a startup. But then again, acquiring capital is not the purpose of your startup—just as breathing oxygen is not the purpose of human life. It’s almost comical how we chase investors, running around as if we’re in a game of musical chairs.”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“Sadly enough, while we all keep segregating ourselves into little tribes, passionately claiming our moral rights and neglected privileges to capital access, we overlook the fact that the real divide comes down to just two sides. Those of us with the desire and mental ability to build and innovate —or, as it's called in finance, the "sell-side." And then there's the "buy-side"—the folks who have some spare capital to invest. How did they get that extra capital in the first place? Good question—fair question.”
― Victoria Silchenko, Raise and Rise: Funding Sources for Your Startup in the Era of Digital Transformation & Blockchain

“Be considerate to your clients, even when they seem to be the wealthiest in the world.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Greed is the investor's kryptonite.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“Fearful investors sell their stocks the moment prices drop while confident ones see those drops as opportunities to own better businesses at cheaper rates.”
― Olawale Daniel, Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits