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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.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

– Arundhati Roy

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

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

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

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

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

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

– Eve Ensler

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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"

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

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

– Bruce Lee

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

– Lisa Earle McLeod

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

– Louisa May Alcott

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– William Jennings Bryan

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

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

– Zig Ziglar

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

– Anais Nin

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

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– African Proverb

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

– Carl Rogers

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Christopher Morley

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Steven Schussler

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

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

– Charles Dickens

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill