Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Books & Quotes

“In an era of generative AI, trust will accrue greater value in the marketplace. People will elevate trust on their list of prerequisites to purchase and prerequisites to engage with content. Furthermore, there will be a redistribution of income and assets from companies and people who are less trusted to those companies and people who are more trusted.”

“As entrepreneurs, honesty and authenticity are key. People only do business with people they trust. If you can’t be trusted, your business cannot be sustained.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When businesses and people honor their agreements, it cultivates a system wide prevalence of trust.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“If there's a lack of trust in an economic system, it introduces additional costs into the system. And those costs are shared among all participants in the economic ecosystem. So that's why trust is important.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When trust is prevalent in an economy, it allows for more business engagements. When there's trust; people are more willing to buy and more willing to sell, and the costs of buying and selling are reduced.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“As a leader, it's important to trust your team. When they feel that trust from you, they'll give it back.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Some of the same things that are important in a family are also important in a company — things like empathy, love, compassion, trust, fun, commitment, collaborative work, and authenticity.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In business, trust is a prerequisite of transacting.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Employees need to feel trusted and respected at work. Everyone at the company should feel that trust and that respect.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In business, having a good reputation is imperative. Because trust is a prerequisite of transacting. Whether it has to do with investing, shopping at a store, or getting into a cooperative deal... We go with what we trust and we go with who we trust. We invest in what we trust, we shop where we trust, we partner with who we trust.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Leadership is not about control, it's about love and empathy and courage and compassion.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In a world where ChatGPT and other AI apps can do many things humans once needed to do themselves or needed to hire other humans to do, the question of ‘how will I add value?’ becomes more relevant than ever.”

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Book:Business Essentials

Source: Business Essentials

“Honesty is very important in business. It's important to customers, it's important to investors and it's important to markets.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Transparency is a good quality to have in business. Honesty, integrity and transparency will gain you the right customers and the right investors. And dishonesty always results in long term losses.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Authenticity is important is business, and in every part of life. Be true to yourself, and make sure the business is being true to itself.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Honest accounting is a really important part of corporate responsibility. Let's just be honest and transparent with the numbers. No inflating, no exaggerating, no reconfiguring... Just pure numbers that tell the honest truth about the companies financial reality.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“All of the normal standards of human decency still apply in the workplace. We should be respectful and kind to each other and we should be honest and authentic as well.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“If the mind can imagine it, it is possible.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Imagination is a valuable commodity in business, especially these days. Your business won't survive if it's people lack imagination.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Prudent investing is about ensuring the safety of principal and reasonable returns.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The skills we cherish as Freemasons — Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence and Justice — are skills that are very useful to me as an investor.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Wealth is the accumulated results of productivity.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In nature, the emphasis is on the multiplication of wealth, not the transfer of wealth. Wealth multiplication results in collective net profit. Wealth transfer however, benefits some at the expense of others.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In nature, the emphasis is on the multiplication of wealth, not the transfer of wealth. Wealth multiplication results in collective net profit. Wealth transfer however, benefits some to the benefit of others.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The accumulation of capital is a good thing. When we look at nature, we see the accumulation of capital everywhere. But accumulated capital usually works in harmony with the productivity of capital. Plots of soil work in harmony with the forest; and each exists in service to the other.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Every company should desire for all of its employees to enjoy varying degrees of wealth and prosperity.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Active capital management aligns with biblical principles. I believe Jesus’ Parable of The Tenants illustrates this well. Capital should be actively stewarded, and never idle and never passively held.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Ideally, work is the activity of purpose fulfillment. And in this context, work is good.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Work is the act of making yourself useful by creating value for a specific group of people. In exchange for our work, we each get paid money which allows us to purchase the work of other people. Work creates a virtuous cycle of value creation, value consumption and value growth. Therefore, work is economically greater than charity. Because whereas charity is economically one sided, work has a multiplicative value effect. In a sense, the greatest form of charity is the creation of employment for others.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Look at nature. Nowhere do you see reward without work. In most cases, the things of nature work smart and not hard, but the things of nature always work. The things of nature are consistently employed in the creation of some value.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When people love the work they do, they bring something special and unique to the job.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Any economic system that does not incentivize and cultivate growth, will leave the human species stuck at an infantile level of civilization development.”

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Book:Business Essentials

Source: Business Essentials

“As a species, we need to achieve efficiency in the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services on a planetary scale.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Globally, It's important that we embed artificial intelligence into our systems such that it functions in service to humanity, and not in competition with it.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Kindness is a core competency for managers. If a manager isn't willing or able to be nice, they're a threat to company culture.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Every employee has a story, and each of them deserve to be treated with respect and kindness.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Leadership requires kindness and empathy.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“You have to be a optimistic person to succeed as an entrepreneur. Fear and pessimism are dangerous to entrepreneurs.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“We all live and work in a dynamic and ever-changing economy. The businesses that are able to adapt, pivot and restructure as needed are the businesses that are most positioned to thrive through the changes.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Businesses provide value by transmuting capital from one state of being to another.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“This generation of entrepreneurs needs to know even more than prior generations that value is the heart of business. Followers and likes are not business. Popularity is not business. What makes a business a business is its offering of value and the real existence of customers to buy that offering of value.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“People become more valuable when they gain skills and capabilities that enable them to add value to other peoples lives. A business is a collaboration of people. Businesses also become more valuable when they gain skills and capabilities that enable them to add value to peoples lives.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Business is supposed to be fun. We're supposed to love what we're doing. Don't let these old folks convince you that business is about spreadsheets and MBA's and metrics and all that stuff. That's all good, but ultimately business is just about adding value to other peoples lives and getting them to pay you for it.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In a permaculture economy, every job is an essential job. But because of the diversity designed into the system, no one job is of so much importance that's it's absence could result in the collapse of the system.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“If you'd like to gain a new understanding of the power of diversity in closed loop systems, get into gardening.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When empathy is present in a companies culture, employees feel safe and they bring the fullness of who they are into the company instead of just a piece of themself. And that cultivates trust. And that's good for everyone.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Every company that intends to grow, should directly address the barriers to scaling.”

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Book:Business Essentials

Source: Business Essentials

“Sustainability and growth must coexist. Look at nature: things only sustain themselves when they continually grow. Growth is a prerequisite for sustainability.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

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