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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
SIPC. Egan, Berger & Weiner, LLC is not a subsidiary of nor controlled by Voya Financial Advisors._

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

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

– Nelson Mandela

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Booker T. Washington

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

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

– John Lennon

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

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

– Corita Kent

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

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

– Indira Ghandi

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Carl Rogers

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

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

– Winston Churchill

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Jimi Hendrix

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

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

– Albert Schweitzer

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

– Steve Jobs

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Martha Beck

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

– Oprah Winfrey

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

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Jack Kerouac

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

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

– Woodrow Wilson

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

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

– Anais Nin

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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