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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.

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– John Quincy Adams

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

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"

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

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

– Annie Dillard

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

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

– Edgar W. Howe

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

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

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Magical

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
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– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
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– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Anais Nin

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

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

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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

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

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

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

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

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It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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

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Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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

– Joseph Cambell

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– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– T.S. Eliot

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

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– Audre Lorde

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

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

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

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Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
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– Mary Jean Irion

I’m not afraid of storms,
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– Louisa May Alcott