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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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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

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

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

– John D. Rockefeller

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

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

– Marcel Proust

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

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

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

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

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Helen Keller

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

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

– Robert H. Schuller

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Thomas Dunn

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Eckhart Tolle

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

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

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Voltaire

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Albert Einstein

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– Louisa May Alcott

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent