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

– Magical

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Mary Oliver

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

– Annie Dillard

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Carlos Castaneda

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Avenida Margarita

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Albert Einstein

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

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

– Indira Ghandi

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

– Carl Rogers

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

– Marcel Proust

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

– Helen Keller

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

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