A Quote by Warren Buffett

We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

Warren Buffett

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Achieved Any Business Certainly Generally Goals Ignored Insurance Our Profitability Set Standards Virtually Volume

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Warren Buffett
American - Businessman
Born: August 30, 1930

XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.

Mike McGavick

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Louis Navellier

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

Shelby Foote

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

Francis Bacon

The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.

Tony Hayward

For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

Washington Irving

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

Sei Shonagon

Volume in your hair is sexy, and it doesn't necessarily have to be that Brigitte Bardot kind of volume - it's just that nice texture up top that gives it some life and body to it.

Chrissy Teigen

Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape and a monumental size. Its value lies in its attention to detail and its full discussion of all relevant and disputed points. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students. Not all Hoehner's conclusions will command consent, but he has produced a stout and readable volume that all will turn to for guidance and help.

Ralph P. Martin

I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.

David Mason

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

Richard Koch

I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.

Harry Triguboff

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.