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

– Buddha

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– William Blake

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

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

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– Edgar W. Howe

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

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

– Helen Keller

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– John Quincy Adams

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Norwegian proverb

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

– William James

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Louisa May Alcott

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Eckhart Tolle

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

– Winston Churchill

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Winston Churchill

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie