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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.

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

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

– Joseph Cambell

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

– Virginia Woolf

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

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

– John Lennon

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

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

– Winston Churchill

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

– August Rush

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

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

– Carl Rogers

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

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

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

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

– Jesse Jackson

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

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

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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

– Winston Churchill

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

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

– Victor Kiam

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

– Abraham Lincoln

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

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"

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– A wisdomism

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

– Thomas Carlyle

By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– Nelson Mandela

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

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

– Corita Kent

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

– Jack Kerouac

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

– Steve Jobs

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 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 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 I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone