Bahamas Quotes

“Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.”
― Denise Hildreth

“As companies age they tend to become more reliant on extracting value from their past successes and less desirous of innovating. It's every CEO's job to ensure the company rejects this tendency and instead chooses to embrace both the capital of past success and the capital of present innovation.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“A fallow mind is a field of discontent.”
― John H. Cunningham, Red Right Return

“When we ask ourselves what is an economy; I think the best place to find the answer to that question is in a forest. Go and sit in a forest and observe with all of your sensory faculties, and meditate there. And while you're observing and meditating, ask yourself questions about everything.

And if you want maybe hit a few puffs of a certain herb while you're meditating there. And you'll find out exactly what an economy is. And you'll also find out exactly what business is. And all of the economic and business concepts like capital allocation and liquidity and service and profit and growth... It'll all start to make more sense as you sit there meditating in that forest.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“The Bahamas is becoming a leading nation in regards to Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency. I think The Bahamas will supercede the United States in these categories soon. And if Bahamians approach this right, we can pivot from the entrapment of tourism to the leverage of influencing global interactions with cryptocurrency, new forms of capital, and vital technologies.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The Central Bank of The Bahamas and the Bahamian people are leading the world in the normalization of digital currency and Blockchain technology as ways to build speed, liquidity, access, efficiency and security into payments.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Being Bahamian, Panamanian and US American allows me to have a very unique perspective on the Americas, on the world, and on global commerce. I think big and I think holistically. And I've embedded that way of thinking into Mayflower-Plymouth.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The Bahamas is becoming a leading nation when it comes to Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“People tend to buy more at a lower price and less at a higher price. Also, people who produce goods or supply services tend to produce more at higher prices and less at lower prices. This juxtaposition constitutes equilibrium.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“We only need to be
To be is all we need
Fill your mind with the divine
And guard against deceit
Feeling generates
Proclaim and create
Fill your heart with love,
And alchemize the hate”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“The Bahamas should be positioning itself as a key strategic link in the global supply chain and the global movement of resources. We have a variety of strategic advantages along these lines, that if leveraged will allow us to add value to global commerce in very unique ways and then profit from the value we add collectively as a people.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Mind visions the way,
Thought, a seed we germinate
Any kind of life inside,
Billions of those lives within
Oh, tell me do you believe?
'Cause your belief is the engine
If they say it's all in your mind
All in your mind, you tell them yes”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn 'to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God'? To those who are possessed of this spirit there is scarcely any book of incident so trifling that does not afford some profit, while to others the experience of ages seems of no use; and even to pour out to them the treasures of wisdom is throwing the jewels of instruction away.”
― Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and other writings

“Sean Sagan, the main character in my novel, The Last Breath of Sean Sagan came to life while wintering in the Bahamas. Sean walked the beach trail to my rented cabin. He guided me through the writing process.”
― Charles E Meads, The Last Breath of Sean Sagan : Europe to the Bahamian Islands a tale of revenge

“Nighty Night Sailboat answered, “Well, Juni, home is where I am.”
Juni thought, “You are so right. I am always home with you.”
“Nighty Night, Juni.”
“Nighty Night, Sailboat.”
― Renne Siewers

“It was a striking example of the futility of making laws which have no public support. That was a lesson I remembered more than once in subsequent years.”
― Charles Dundas, African Crossroads