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Carmen Wu, CRPC®, Financial Adviser, Egan Berger & Weiner LLC

COLUMN = RETIREMENT

Carmen Wu, CRPC®, partnered with Egan, Berger & Weiner, LLC in August 2007. She brings 25 years of experience in the financial industry, and has served as financial adviser, branch manager, regional manager, chief operations officer and vice president of a regional banking institution.

A graduate of the University of Southern California, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science/International Relations, Martinez is an active member of the Rotary Club of McLean, a community service organization, and has served on the board of directors for five years.

She is also an active member of the Financial Planning Association and the Financial Services Institute, and is currently enrolled in the College for Financial Planning.

Raised in California, Martinez moved to the east coast in 1987 and now resides in Alexandria, VA. The oldest of nine children, she enjoys spending time with her 19 nephews and nieces. In her spare time she pursues one of her lifelong passions for art by drawing and painting portraits, landscapes and still life.

For more information, visit www.ebwfinancialnews.com. And send her an email at: cmartinez@ebwllc.com.

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– William James

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– Woodrow Wilson

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

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

– Jesse Jackson

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

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

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

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

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

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

– Steven Schussler

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

– William Blake

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

– Jimi Hendrix

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Martha Beck

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

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

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

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

– E.B. White

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Andrew Carnegie

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Anita Roddick

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

– Albert Schweitzer