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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.

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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– Avenida Margarita

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

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

– Helen Keller

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

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

– Francesca Reigle

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

– John Lennon

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

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

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

– William Butler Yeats

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

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

– John D. Rockefeller

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

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

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

– John Quincy Adams

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

– Edgar W. Howe

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

– Henry Miller

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

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

– Victor Kiam

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Mary Oliver

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

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

– Louisa May Alcott

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Jimi Hendrix

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

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

– Abraham Lincoln

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah