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

– Albert Einstein

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Bruce Lee

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

“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.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Jack Kerouac

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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

– Alfred Adler

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

– William Jennings Bryan

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Optimism rules

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Groucho Marx

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

– Winston Churchill

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Martha Beck

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

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

– Benjamin Disraeli

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash