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Judy Curry, CMO, Curry's Auto Service

COLUMN = CAR CARE

Judy Curry, the chief marketing officer for Curry’s Auto Service, has a Business Management degree from George Mason University.

When she and her husband Matt opened up the first shop in Chantilly in 1998, Judy was initially responsible for maintaining the books, paperwork, payroll, and a variety of other vital administrative functions needed to keep the business going.

Once the company grew, she took on all the marketing and advertising responsibility, a job she thoroughly enjoys. She is instrumental in creating a safe and comfortable repair shop environment for her female colleagues and friends. This effort, along with several Car Care and Driving clinics she conducts every year, got her recognized in 2009 by the Washington Business Journal as one of their “Women Who Mean Business” Awards.

Need more information about how to care for your car? Contact Judy at judy@currysauto.com.

For more information about Curry’s Auto Service, visit www.currysauto.com.

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

– Charles Dickens

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

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

– African Proverb

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Anita Roddick

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 follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Ray Bradbury

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Robert Frost

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– John Quincy Adams

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Louisa May Alcott

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

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

– William Jennings Bryan

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

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

– Carlos Castaneda

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Nelson Mandela

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

– John D. Rockefeller

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

– Lewis Carroll

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

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

– Bruce Lee

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

– Robert Frost

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Helen Keller

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes