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Rita Cheng, CFP®, CRPC, CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth

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Marguerita M. Cheng, CFP® is the CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth, which provides corporations and institutions with portfolio construction, investment due diligence, and risk-management consulting services. The firm works with families, entrepreneurs, and executives to help them identify and achieve their financial goals. As a CFP Board Ambassador, she helps educate the public, policymakers, and media about the benefits of competent, ethical financial planning.

A Financial Planning Association (FPA) National Board Member and member of the finance committee, Cheng served eight years on the Board of Directors of her alma mater, The Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, where she collaborated to increase alumni engagement and developed asset management education programs. She is also the President of the Blue Ocean Economic Empowerment Fund.

Cheng says her greatest joy and passion is touching the lives of others so that they may achieve their “personal financial success.”

For more information, visit www.blueoceanglobalwealth.com.

Securities offered through Private Client Services, LLC. Member FINRA | SIPC. Advisory products and services offered through Blue Ocean Global Wealth, a registered investment advisor. Private Client Services, LLC and Blue Ocean Global Wealth are not affiliated entities.

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– Charles Dickens

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

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

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

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

– Anthony Trollope

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

– Robert H. Schuller

If you would create something,
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– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

– August Rush

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
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– Emily Dickinson

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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– Ellen DeGeneres

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

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

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Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Alfred Adler

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

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A man without a smiling face
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

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

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

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– William Jennings Bryan

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– Ted Leonsis

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

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– Langston Hughes

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– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

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By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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.”

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– Brian Tracy

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.”

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When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

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

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