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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.

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

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

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

– Byron Katie

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

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– William Jennings Bryan

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

– T.S. Eliot

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

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

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

– Bob Dylan

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

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

– Hindu Proverb

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Helen Keller

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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Robert Frost

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

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

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

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Voltaire

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Steve Jobs

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

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

– Bruce Lee

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

– Robert H. Schuller

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Thomas Dunn

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Christopher Morley

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Goldie Hawn

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

– Winston Churchill