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Sheldon Weiner, partner, Egan Berger & Weiner LLC

A founding partner of Egan, Berger & Weiner, LLC, Sheldon Weiner, LUTCF, has more than three decades of experience in the financial industry. After graduating from the University of Maryland, and the Hartford Insurance Company School of Advanced Underwriting, he earned the LUTCF (Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow), and also served as president of Creative Financial Programs, Inc.

Weiner has 10+ years of experience as a teacher and lecturer for various educational institutions in the area, and is an active member of the Financial Planning Association.

For more information, and to contact Weiner, send him an email at sweiner@ebwllc.com or call 703-506-0030 ×106.

_Securities and Investment Advisory Services offered through Voya Financial Advisors, member
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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– Arthur Rubinstein

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

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

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

– Helen Keller

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

– Albert Einstein

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Woodrow Wilson

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

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– A wisdomism

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

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

– Gandi

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Joseph Cambell

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

– Robert Frost

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

– Corita Kent

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

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Oscar Wilde

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

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

– Oprah Winfrey

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Charles Dickens

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler