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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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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

– John Lennon

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

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

– William Blake

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

– Virginia Woolf

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

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

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

– Avenida Margarita

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

– Corita Kent

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Napoleon

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

– Michelle Sedas

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

– Thomas Edison

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

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Anthony Trollope

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Tony Robbins

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

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

– The Dalai Lama

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

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

– Magical

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

– Jimi Hendrix

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller