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Scott Golden, Co-Founder, Golden & Cohen

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Scott Golden, CFO of the health-benefits firm Golden & Cohen is recognized as an industry leader in the small to mid-size insurance market, and ranks among the area’s top producers, according to the Washington Business Journal’s Annual List.

He received a BS in Marketing from the University of Maryland in 1985, an MBA from George Washington University in 1990, and later a JD and LLM in taxation from the University of Baltimore. His advanced academic and legal degrees enable him to evaluate local and national mandates in conjunction with helping his clients prepare and implement the proper strategy.

Supporting the community is important to Scott, who advocates about the importance of lower health-care rates on behalf of his clients. He has served on the Green Acres School Board of Trustees and sits on the board of ALS-DC in Maryland.

Scott is a native of upstate New York. He has been married to Golden & Cohen co-owner Stephanie Cohen since 1989. They have two children.

For more information about Scott’s insurance firm, visit www.golden-cohen.com contact Scott Golden by email at scott@golden-cohen.com.

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– Steven Schussler

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

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Corita Kent

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– Bob Dylan

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

– Anita Roddick

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

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

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Muhammad Yunus

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– William Jennings Bryan

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

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

– John D. Rockefeller

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

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

– African Proverb

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– J. Robert Oppenheimer

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
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– Emily Dickinson

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

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– The Dalai Lama

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Tony Robbins

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

– Anthony Trollope

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

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I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

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Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

– Muhammad Yunus

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

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

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

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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.”

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


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

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

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

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

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They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

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