Banking Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.

— Harold Geneen

Unsolicited surprise requests from strangers are essentially guaranteed to be met with a negative response.

— Terence Tao

The outcome of any situation. Positive or negative is strongly based on your attitude.

— Gee Linder

Negative interest rates hurt banks' balance sheets, with the 'wealth effect' on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.

— Joseph Stiglitz

If you only speak of negative things, you can expect that only negative things will occur.

— Jenna Bognar

Prepare for opportunities, don't wait for opportunities to take you by surprise.

— Daniel Emmanuel

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

— Seth Godin

There is another point that I think is as important: You should expect the unexpected in this business; expect the extreme. Don’t think in…

— Richard Dennis

The theory is that if you take interest rates negative, people are going to say, "That's a silly game! I'm not going to lend…

— Mohamed El-Erian

I know that when you take a risk, the consequence will never be a neutral response; it will either be very positive or very…

— Rosalia

I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability.…

— Raghuram Rajan

You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

— Nan Kempner