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Tricia Mininger, Business Banker, PNC Bank

Tricia Mininger, business banker for PNC Bank, manages business and nonprofit banking relationships for clients in the Greater Washington, DC, market. She excels at finding solutions for her clients’ cash-flow needs and is an expert in deposit and lending services.

Tricia also is a certified Women’s Business Advocate for PNC, one of 500 bankers in the company educated to better understand the challenges and opportunities for women in business. Tricia holds bachelor’s degrees in Marketing and Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently pursuing an MBA at George Washington University. She resides in Arlington, Virginia.

For more information, contact Tricia at patricia.mininger@pnc.com, or by phone at 202 835-2673.

About PNC Bank

PNC, one of the nation’s largest diversified financial services organizations, provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment services to more than five million consumer and small business customers across 15 states and the District of Columbia.

As part of its longstanding commitment to offering financial advice and solutions to women-owned businesses, PNC recently commissioned a national survey of women business owners. The survey found that while most owners are pleased with their financial results, they are far more optimistic about their own company than the regional or U.S. economy.

More information, including detailed results of the survey, can be found on the PNC website at www.pnc.com.

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– Groucho Marx

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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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– Anna Quindlen

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

– Bruce Lee

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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– Guy Kawasaki

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

– Jimi Hendrix

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Albert Einstein

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– Martha Beck

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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Winston Churchill

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

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There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

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

– T.S. Eliot

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– Ella Fitzgerald

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Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

The journey is the reward.”

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– T.S. Eliot

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– Leonardo da Vinci

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

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