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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.

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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

– Jimi Hendrix

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Jalaluddin Rumi

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

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

– Charles Dickens

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

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Carl Rogers

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

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

– Tony Robbins

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– Anna Pavlova

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
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– Indira Ghandi

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

– Andrew Carnegie

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

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

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

– Jack Kerouac

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

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

– Byron Katie

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Voltaire

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

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– Langston Hughes

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

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– John Lennon

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– Thomas Carlyle

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– Charles Darwin

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– Steven Schussler

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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