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Bryan D. Beatty, Financial Planner, Egan, Berger & Weiner LLC

Bryan Beatty is a Certified Financial Planner® and partner at Egan, Berger & Weiner LLC, which is based in Northern Virginia. With more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry, he is a principal of this independent financial services firm, which is experienced in all aspects of investment and retirement planning.

An active member of the Financial Planning Association’s Career Development and College Outreach Committees, Beatty is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a BS in Finance. He was the former president of the Finance, Banking and Investment Society, and he is an avid musician who plays guitar and writes music in his spare time, and occasionally plays area venues. Originally from Baltimore, Beatty has lived in Northern Virginia since 1992.

For more information about Beatty’s services, send him an email at bbeatty@ebwllc.com.

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The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer