Markets Quotes

“Businesses and markets have a symbiotic relationship. Each has a profound effect on the other.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“As markets change and the broader economy evolves, new opportunities for businesses to add value emerge. And new possibilities for new kinds of businesses also emerge.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Nature isn't transactional. Nature is is about relationships and processes and systems. Transactions happen, but they happen within the clear context of relationships, processes and systems. Business should be like that. Markets should be like that. The economy should be like that.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“To succeed in business, it's important to have an understanding of markets.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“One of the major prompts for businesses implementing change is the evolution of technology. As new technologies emerge or new use cases emerge for existing technologies; markets are forced to reorganize and therefore businesses are prompted to reorganize in response to that.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Marketing is not about looking good or getting likes or gaining more followers. Marketing is about getting your product to market or getting your service to market. If your marketing efforts aren't converting to sales, then your marketing efforts are failing.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Every now and then there's some new fancy thing we're all talking about. But if you look deeper you realize the core essence of that new fancy thing is actually pretty old. Trends change, markets change, people change - but the essentials of business don't change.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are.”
― Marc Andreessen

“North Carolina and Virginia are probably two of the most business friendly states in the USA.”
― 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

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we prioritize time in the market and not timing the market. We prioritize total return and not quick short term gains.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Capital is a living substance and it is expected to grow and to multiply and to compound. And the more capital we have, the more of it we can get, and the more income we can command.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“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

“Data Analytics is critical to wise investing, but so is good old fashioned understanding of business and markets.”
― Hendrith Smith

“The fundamental priority of every business is to create value for its customers or clients — to improve their lives in some way through the products or services being sold by the business.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, 4 Business Lessons From Jesus: A businessmans interpretation of Jesus' teachings, applied in a business context.

“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

“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

“People have to be able to access your businesses product or service. They have to notice your product or service among alternatives. And they have to feel an authentic connection.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business for Beginners: Getting Started

“The crash, he believed, had been a lancet applied to an abscess. A good bleeding was necessary to do away with the swelling so that the market could find its true bottom and rebuild on solid foundations.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“We are approaching a soft data catastrophe. Entire lives, from tastes in music and clothes to deepest personal convictions - all produced by networks of feedback between datamining and content recommendation algorithms.

The 'catastrophe' is when these algorithms unconsciously (or maybe, consciously?) lead people down presupposed paths for modern and emerging markets.

Algorithms could right now be helping make people convert to a religion, drug addicts, vegan, LGBTQ, ethnonarcissists, fat, cult members, suicidal, narcissists, atheist, poly, mass shooters...”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Below us was a frozen lake. It was perfectly round, a great gleaming eye in which the moon and stars were mirrored. Lanterns glowing the same cold white as the aurora dangled from the lake's edge to a scattering of benches and merchant-stands, draped in bright awnings of opal and blue. Delicious smells floated on the wind---smoked fish; fire-roasted nuts and candies; spiced cakes. A winter fair.*


* Outside of Russia, almost all known species of courtly fae, and many common fae also, are fond of fairs and markets; indeed, such gatherings appear in stories as the interstitial spaces between their worlds and ours, and thus it is not particularly surprising that they feature in so many encounters with the Folk. The character of such markets, however, varies widely, from sinister to benign. The following features are universal: 1) Dancing, which the mortal visitor may be invited to partake in; 2) A variety of vendors selling foods and goods which the visitor is unable to recall afterwards. More often than not, the markets take place at night. Numerous scholars have attempted to document these gatherings; the most widely referenced accounts are by Baltasar Lenz, who successfully visited two fairs in Bavaria before his disappearance in 1899.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

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

“The mainstream media’s side is money- it’s the same side as the financial markets.”
― Carlos Latuff

“The wonder of markets is that they reconcile the choices of myriad individuals.”
― William Easterly

“It looked like a market, but such a market as Marra had never seen. There were jeweled pavilions crowded next to mud huts and hide tents and things that looked like upside-down bird nests. The aisles between were crowded, but the people within them did not move like a crowd. They moved like dancers, some light, some heavy, some in circling solitary waltzes. They reminded Marra far more of the courtiers in the prince's palace than of the town on market day.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Nothing is too saturated, you just can't find your own hue.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“There is discrimination, and the opportunities are not equal to everyone. Most countries are blocked from using several crucial features on Google, Amazon, Shopify, AliExpress, and many more platforms that the "internet millionaires" use to get all of their wealth. They are not smarter than you! They simply have access to markets that are blocked to you! When you try to compete inside their markets, the domain owners alter the algorithms to favor people in that geolocation and put them and their products in front of your. I have been stopped from uploading books for no other reason than being in east Europe. People don't believe these stories are true because they don't want to believe they are living in such a world. It's like the story of the Native Americans, who were offered blankets contaminated with diseases to kill them. Now you are being offered a blanket of illusions that gives you lies. And when you say the truth, they call it a conspiracy and hate speech.”
― Dan Desmarques

“Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers recycle their wages by spending them in shops and businesses recycle their revenues by spending them on salaries if both are to survive. And just as in our ecosystems, in which a failure of recycling leads to desertification, so when recycling breaks down in the economy we end up with a crisis that results in devastating poverty and deprivation.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

“Surely little remained of the Puritan legacy of prudish rectitude, he thought: surely this was now a country of excess, gluttony, lust, and sloth; surely this had grown into a land where obesity reigned and even the poor moved ponderously down the street on big thighs that rubbed fatly together. What had become of the pilgrims' gaunt and stingy oversight? He knew in part it was the visionary genius of enterprising men, but such entrepreneurs were only the tools of a hungry culture. For the descendants of those gray, upright pioneers had cherished cravings for beef patties with ketchup, deep-fried chicken and vats of ice cream, chemically scented and dyed all the colors of the rainbow, and billions upon billions of gallons of soda. Their thirst had never been quite slaked and so they never finished drinking; and this was the market in all its streamlined functionality—which, precisely where the supply and the demand curves crossed, had swiftly produced a nation of paralyzed giants, fallen across their couches much as soldiers on the field of battle, their arteries hard, their softened hearts failing.

The market made a fool of you by giving you what you wanted. But this did not make him resent it; it merely earned his respect. From the day you were born you were called upon to discern what to choose.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream