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“Sam Walton: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who’s going to have a great idea.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“What we guard against around here is people saying, ‘Let’s think about it.â€� We make a decision. Then we act on it.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“Every time Wal-Mart spends one dollar foolishly, it comes right out of our customersâ€� pockets. Every time we save them a dollar, that puts us one more step ahead of the competition—which is where we always plan to be.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“I don’t think any other retail company in the world could do what I’m going to propose to you. It’s simple. It won’t cost us anything. And I believe it would just work magic, absolute magic on our customers, and our sales would escalate, and I think we’d just shoot past our Kmart friends in a year or two and probably Sears as well. I want you to take a pledge with me. I want you to promise that whenever you come within ten feet of a customer, you will look him in the eye, greet him, and ask him if you can help him. Now I know some of you are just naturally shy, and maybe don’t want to bother folks. But if you’ll go along with me on this, it would, I’m sure, help you become a leader. It would help your personality develop, you would become more outgoing, and in time you might become manager of that store, you might become a department manager, you might become a district manager, or whatever you choose to be in the company. It will do wonders for you. I guarantee it. Now, I want you to raise your right hand—and remember what we say at Wal-Mart, that a promise we make is a promise we keep—and I want you to repeat after me: From this day forward, I solemnly promise and declare that every time a customer comes within ten feet of me, I will smile, look him in the eye, and greet him. So help me Sam.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“He proved that people can be motivated. The mountain is there, but somebody else has already climbed it.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“Business is a competitive endeavor, and job security lasts only as long as the customer is satisfied. Nobody owes anybody else a living. To”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“Watson, Sr., was running IBM, he decided they would never have more than four layers from the chairman of the board to the lowest level in the company. That may have been one of the greatest single reasons why IBM was successful.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“It is a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.”
― Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made In America

“Jesus taught several great lessons on wise investing, including The Parable of The Bags of Gold, The Parable of the Tenants and the Parable of The Sower.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“There’s no amount of data that can replace an investors ability to empathize with the entrepreneur. There’s no amount of computational capacity that can replace a genuine and instinctive understanding of business management.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Whatever the tax rate is, pay it. The cost of non-compliance is greater than the cost of reduction of profits.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“One day I hope for Mayflower-Plymouth to perhaps have more than $1 Trillion in Assets Under Management.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In a Permaculture Economic system, participants view capital from a holistic perspective, as stewards of Capital rather than just users of Capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“In nature, capital is stewarded and not merely used. Permaculture Economics shares this stewardship approach to capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“When Private Equity is approached from an ecosystem perspective, businesses in the portfolio can be led to create multiplicative value effects; with other businesses in the portfolio being primary additional beneficiaries, thereby amplifying profitability among several the businesses in the ecosystem.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

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

“Everyone knows about market risk and management risk. But there are a variety of non obvious risks to consider when managing a portfolio of investments. They include political risk, share premiums and discounts risk, Interest Rate risk, Income Risk, Tax law changes risk, valuation risk, and liquidity risk, among others. This is why professional active portfolio management is the way to go.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The fee asset managers charge is for the value they provide. If a farmer grows a fruiting tree, you pay him more for the tree than you would pay him for just a seedling. Why? Because of the effort, energy and skill the farmer put into growing that tree plus the added value of the income (fruit) that tree provides are a testament to the farmers value add and he deserves to be compensated for that value add. It’s the same kind of thing with the 2 & 20 you pay the portfolio manager.”
― Hendrith Smith

“North Carolina and Virginia are probably two of the most business friendly states in the USA.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The thriving business environment in Charlotte North Carolina is a beautiful thing to see.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“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.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we have a unique approach to minimizing risk in our portfolios. We approach risk holistically.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“There’s no amount of charts and equations that can replace a fundamental understanding of business.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we believe it’s very important to have high ethical standards regarding our Assets Under Management.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we believe it’s important to treat other people’s capital with the same degree of care with which we treat our own capital. We take stewardship very seriously when it comes to our Assets Under Management.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Markets fluctuate and markets can be unpredictable at times. This is why having a resilient portfolio is critical. Growth without resilience only ends in extreme loss. But resilience protects assets from loss.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Decision is what directs energy, tunes frequency, and sets the rate of vibration of, in and toward life.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Thoughts of wealth create a wealthy life. Thoughts of poverty create the conditions of poverty. Thoughts of every kind create.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic