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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.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Thomas Dunn

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

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

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

– Thomas Edison

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Voltaire

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Carlos Castaneda

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Marcel Proust

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

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

– Peter F. Drucker

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Steve Jobs

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

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

– Albert Einstein

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

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

– John Lennon

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Louisa May Alcott

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Henry Miller

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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

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

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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