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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.

For additional information about Egan, Berger & Weiner, LLC, visit EBWFinancialNews.com, and EBWllc.com.

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

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

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

– Winston Churchill

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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

– William Blake

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Leonard Cohen

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

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

– Edgar W. Howe

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

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

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

– Jimi Hendrix

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

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

– Albert Schweitzer

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

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

– Muhammad Yunus

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Voltaire

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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