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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.

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

– Annie Dillard

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Steve Jobs

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Henry Miller

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

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

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

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

– Byron Katie

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"

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Ajahn Chah

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

– Charles Dickens

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

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Albert Einstein

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

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

– Erica Jong

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

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

– Albert Einstein

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

– Victor Kiam

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

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

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Winston Churchill