| 100M | “a hundred million” | Steve Jobs Held Over $100 Million When Forced Out of Apple | Shane Parrish | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Baszucki estimates Roblox captures 3% to 4% of the $200B gaming market | David Baszucki | Aug 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Baszucki estimates Roblox captures 3% to 4% of the $200B gaming market | David Baszucki | Aug 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 32× | “32 times” | Jacobs's companies generated 32x and 150x returns for shareholders | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 150× | “150 times” | Jacobs's companies generated 32x and 150x returns for shareholders | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $3B | “Three billion dollars” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $550M | “five hundred fifty million dollars” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Paribas gave Jacobs's early oil trading business a $1B credit line | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $90M | “ninety million dollars” | Paribas gave Jacobs's early oil trading business a $1B credit line | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $900M | “nine hundred million dollars” | Jacobs is investing $900M of his own money into QXO | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “hundred million dollars” | Jacobs is investing $900M of his own money into QXO | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “one billion dollars” | Jacobs is investing $900M of his own money into QXO | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50 billion by capturing 6% of distribution market | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Open |
| 900B | “an eight hundred billion” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50 billion by capturing 6% of distribution market | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Open |
| 6% | “six percent” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50 billion by capturing 6% of distribution market | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Open |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Jacobs: FP&A should calibrate manager forecasts against their historical accuracy | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Multiple Jacobs executives made tens of millions, and one made over $100M | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 55% | “55%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 65% | “65%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Rockefeller Relentlessly Audited Eight-Dollar Discrepancies Despite Earning Millions Annually | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Rockefeller Relentlessly Audited Eight-Dollar Discrepancies Despite Earning Millions Annually | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | In 1863, crude oil averaged $2/barrel while refined kerosene sold for $13/barrel | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Supported |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Parrish: Rockefeller's Standard Oil stock was worth $18M in 1879 | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Rockefeller's Fortune Tripled to Nearly One Billion Dollars After Standard Oil's Breakup | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Rockefeller's Fortune Tripled to Nearly One Billion Dollars After Standard Oil's Breakup | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Parrish: Rockefeller Jr. distributed over $1B after leaving Standard Oil in 1910 | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Parrish: Rockefeller collected $5M insurance payout upon reaching age 96 | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 4× | “four X” | Nejatian: Opendoor built AI exoskeletons making employees three to four times faster | Kaz Nejatian | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Nejatian: Opendoor is buying 6-7x more homes year-over-year by removing friction | Kaz Nejatian | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Valiante: 99% of New Year's Resolutions Fail by the End of March | Dr. Gio Valiante | Jul 7, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 4% | “four percent” | Valiante: 99% of New Year's Resolutions Fail by the End of March | Dr. Gio Valiante | Jul 7, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 20% | “20%” | Enders: An 80/20 ratio of whole to processed foods maintains dietary balance | Dr. Giulia Enders | Jun 23, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Enders: An 80/20 ratio of whole to processed foods maintains dietary balance | Dr. Giulia Enders | Jun 23, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Enders: Lifestyle Drives 80% of Health While Supplements Add 1-2% | Dr. Giulia Enders | Jun 23, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Enders: Lifestyle Drives 80% of Health While Supplements Add 1-2% | Dr. Giulia Enders | Jun 23, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Gurley: QQQ has probably beaten 80% to 90% of VC funds | Bill Gurley | Jun 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Gurley: 5% or fewer of non-product people can develop product instincts | Bill Gurley | Jun 9, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Pincus: Apps earning an iPhone home screen spot hold $1B stick value | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Pincus: TCI Considered $400M Prodigy Stake Instead of Buying AOL for $110M | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Pincus: TCI Considered $400M Prodigy Stake Instead of Buying AOL for $110M | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Pincus: Every click cuts users by half and downloads lose 80-90% | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Pincus: Every click cuts users by half and downloads lose 80-90% | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Pincus: Founders who compromise build companies they no longer want to run | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Pincus: Feud between Peter Thiel and Sequoia killed early Zynga financing | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Pincus: Feud between Peter Thiel and Sequoia killed early Zynga financing | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Pincus: Feud between Peter Thiel and Sequoia killed early Zynga financing | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Pincus: Zynga never spent a dollar of venture capital raised | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Pincus: Roughly 20% of Facebook users played FarmVille at its peak | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Pincus: Roughly 20% of Facebook users played FarmVille at its peak | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Pincus: Zynga drove 20% of Facebook page views and 10% of revenue at IPO | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Pincus: Zynga drove 20% of Facebook page views and 10% of revenue at IPO | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Zynga's Words with Friends turnaround generated $180M revenue, $100M contribution margin | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Zynga's Words with Friends turnaround generated $180M revenue, $100M contribution margin | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Pincus: Zynga had a $400M handshake deal to acquire Supercell | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Pincus: Supercell made $500M profit the year after Zynga passed | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 16% | “16%” | At Its Peak, Hyundai Constituted 16% of South Korea's Entire Economy | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Chung Ju-Yung Ran Away From Home Four Times Before Escaping Permanently | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Chung Ju-Yung Ran Away From Home Four Times Before Escaping Permanently | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Post-War Korean Construction Contracts Paid Up to 40 Times Auto Repair | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | The South Korean Government Drove 80% of Hyundai's Early-1960s Revenue | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $5.2M | “5.2 million dollars” | Hyundai Won a $5.2M Thai Highway Contract Over 29 Global Competitors | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| $60M | “sixty million dollars” | Vietnam War Work Provided Nearly 20% of South Korea's 1967 Foreign Exchange | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Vietnam War Work Provided Nearly 20% of South Korea's 1967 Foreign Exchange | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Vietnam War Work Provided Nearly 20% of South Korea's 1967 Foreign Exchange | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Hyundai Completed the Soyang River Dam 30% Below Original Cost Estimates | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| $8M | “eight million dollars” | Hyundai Bought More Heavy Machinery Than Existed in All of South Korea | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 3.7M | “3.7 million” | The Gyeongbu Expressway Cut Seoul-to-Busan Travel From 15 Hours to 4 Hours | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Hyundai Had 82% Hands-On Labor Versus 60% for Japanese Shipbuilders | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 14% | “14%” | Hyundai Had 82% Hands-On Labor Versus 60% for Japanese Shipbuilders | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 82% | “82%” | Hyundai Had 82% Hands-On Labor Versus 60% for Japanese Shipbuilders | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Hyundai Had 82% Hands-On Labor Versus 60% for Japanese Shipbuilders | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Hyundai Built Ships in Half the European Time at 10% Lower Prices | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| $31M | “thirty-one million dollars” | Hyundai Won a Contract Worth Half of South Korea's Entire Annual Budget | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Hyundai Earned $2B From Foreign Construction Projects in 1979 Alone | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Hyundai Reached Over $10 Billion in Annual Sales by the Mid-1980s | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Seoul's Olympic Facilities Were 60% Complete During the 1981 Bidding Session | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| $6B | “six billion dollars” | South Korea Spent Close to $6 Billion on the 1988 Summer Olympics | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Korean Business Leaders Paid 500 Million Won Bi-Annually to President Park | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| $81M | “eighty one million dollars” | Chung Ju-Yung Was Forced to Pay $181M in Government Back Taxes | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Weinberg screens out 99% of meetings by forcing written paragraph justifications | Winston Weinberg | May 12, 2026 | — |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Weinberg: Harvey abandoned a $700M acquisition after securing $500M equity | Winston Weinberg | May 12, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Weinberg: Harvey abandoned a $700M acquisition after securing $500M equity | Winston Weinberg | May 12, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Weinberg: AI leverage turns 10x talent into 100x contributors | Winston Weinberg | May 12, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Weinberg: AI leverage turns 10x talent into 100x contributors | Winston Weinberg | May 12, 2026 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Brockman: Global GPU production is nowhere near one GPU per person | Greg Brockman | Apr 22, 2026 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Harik: XPO tracks first and second derivatives of 10 daily KPIs | Mario Harik | Apr 14, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Harik: XPO tracks first and second derivatives of 10 daily KPIs | Mario Harik | Apr 14, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Harik: XPO spent nearly $1B acquiring 28 Yellow terminal properties | Mario Harik | Apr 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Harik: Current Nvidia and Google chips offer 5M times 1990s compute | Mario Harik | Apr 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Liemandt: 80% of Students at Harvard Now Receive A's | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Liemandt: Only 10% of Education Market Prioritizes Academics Over Time Efficiency | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 96% | “96%” | Liemandt: 40% to 60% of Alpha School students prefer school over vacation | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Liemandt: 40% to 60% of Alpha School students prefer school over vacation | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Liemandt: Every grade and subject at Alpha School tests in top 1% | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 50% | “50%” | Liemandt: Alpha 3rd and 4th graders outscore 50% of US high schoolers | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Liemandt: Alpha's top 1% students learn 3x faster than elite peers | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Liemandt: Alpha's top 1% students learn 3x faster than elite peers | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Liemandt: Alpha's top 1% students learn 3x faster than elite peers | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Liemandt: Paper shows 50% of UCSD freshmen cannot answer fifth-grade questions | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: Alpha's App Teaches K-8 Subjects to Mastery in Under 30 Hours | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Liemandt: Traditional classroom lecturing wastes 90% of students' time | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Liemandt: Traditional classroom lecturing wastes 90% of students' time | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Liemandt: 90% of Students Using Academic Chatbots Are Cheating | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Liemandt: Alpha Spends $10,000 per Student on AI Compute | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Liemandt: Alpha Student Produced Musical Garnering 1M Streams in Week One | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: LLMs Commoditize School Knowledge While Enabling 10x Faster Learning | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Liemandt: Alpha School loses about 50% of educators over learning accountability | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Liemandt: Alpha Fifth Graders Beat Wharton MBAs on Teamwork and Leadership Assessments | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Liemandt: Alpha Pays Middle Schoolers $1,000 for Top 1% Academic Performance | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Liemandt: Alpha Pays Middle Schoolers $1,000 for Top 1% Academic Performance | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: Alpha School Prepares Students for SAT 10x Faster at 20 Hours | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Teskey: 70% of Brookfield's current investments did not exist 20 years ago | Connor Teskey | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Teskey: Waiting for absolute certainty in deals guarantees zero completed transactions | Connor Teskey | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Teskey: Waiting for absolute certainty in deals guarantees zero completed transactions | Connor Teskey | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Teskey: AI robotics adoption will happen slower but impact more than expected | Connor Teskey | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 33B | “a thirty two billion” | Tenev: Robinhood Lost Over 80% of Market Value Post-IPO | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Tenev: Robinhood Lost Over 80% of Market Value Post-IPO | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Tenev: Robinhood Retirement Has Over 1.5M Accounts | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Tenev: Robinhood Has 11 Business Lines Generating Over $100M Annually | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Tenev: Robinhood scaled from 700 staff to thousands and nearly $1B revenue in 2020 | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three X” | Tenev: Robinhood scaled from 700 staff to thousands and nearly $1B revenue in 2020 | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tenev: Generative AI tools will increase creative output 100x to 1,000x | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Tenev: Robinhood Gold Card has over 500,000 cardholders | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Tenev: Robinhood funds 3% card cashback via brokerage cross-sell flywheel | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Tangen: Norway's sovereign fund increases productivity 20% using AI | Nicolai Tangen | Feb 17, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Tangen: Norway's sovereign fund actively manages 20% of its capital | Nicolai Tangen | Feb 17, 2026 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Tangen: Norwegian Politicians Can Spend at Most 3% of Fund Annually | Nicolai Tangen | Feb 17, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Tangen: Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund Finances 25% of National Budget | Nicolai Tangen | Feb 17, 2026 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Tangen: Buying before researching creates urgency and relies on pattern recognition | Nicolai Tangen | Feb 17, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Tangen: Junior Investors Cannot Use Gut Feel Because Superiors Disbelieve It | Nicolai Tangen | Feb 17, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Ovitz: Building momentum requires continuous effort without cutting back even 10% | Michael Ovitz | Feb 3, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Ovitz: CAA recruited roughly 80% of executives internally or from standout competitors | Michael Ovitz | Feb 3, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Ovitz: Leaders Must Resist Dopamine Addiction from Relentless Execution Momentum | Michael Ovitz | Feb 3, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Parrish: 80% of Original McDonald's Sales Came From Hamburgers Alone | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.9% | “1.9%” | Kroc's original McDonald's deal took 1.9% royalty, paying brothers 0.5% | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Kroc's original McDonald's deal took 1.9% royalty, paying brothers 0.5% | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 0.5% | “0.5%” | Kroc's original McDonald's deal took 1.9% royalty, paying brothers 0.5% | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Harry Sonneborn turned $1,000 into $170 million in McDonald's real estate | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| $70M | “seventy million dollars” | Harry Sonneborn turned $1,000 into $170 million in McDonald's real estate | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “a percent” | McDonald's buyout was financed by 12 institutions including Princeton and Ford Foundation | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 12M | “twelve million” | McDonald's repaid its 30-year buyout debt 19 years early in 1972 | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 19% | “19%” | McDonald's enforced strict 19% beef fat using custom Fat-alyzer testing devices | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Housel: 99% of Warren Buffett's Net Worth Accumulated After Age 65 | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Housel: Widespread Mutual Fund Underperformance Is Natural and Statistically Expected | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Parrish: Government Fees Account for 30% of New Home Prices in Canada | Shane Parrish | Jan 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Housel: People's Internal Emotional Range Vastly Exceeds Their Curated Public Performances | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Housel: Transferring Wealth to Children at 30 Yields Greater Utility Than Inheritance | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Housel: 'Just Be Yourself' Is Good Advice for Only 5% of People | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Housel: America's Non-Fascist Great Depression Recovery Was a Top 10% Tail Outcome | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Morgan Housel Keeps 20% to 30% of His Net Worth in Cash | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | — |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Parrish: Chess Grandmasters Play Their Initial Intuitive Move 99.9% of the Time | Shane Parrish | Jan 20, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Housel: New American Homes Today Are Nearly Triple 1950s Average Size | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Housel: The Psychology of Money Has Sold Roughly 10 Million Copies | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 3% | “Three percent” | Housel: Earning Average Market Returns for 50 Years Beats 97% of Investors | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 97% | “97%” | Housel: Earning Average Market Returns for 50 Years Beats 97% of Investors | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Housel: Earning Average Market Returns for 50 Years Beats 97% of Investors | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Housel Allocates 40% of Book Royalties to Taxes and Instantly Invests the Rest | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Clear: Positioning and packaging accounts for roughly 50% of product success | James Clear | Jan 1, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Clear: Working on the right objective yields 100x results; pure effort scales 20% | James Clear | Jan 1, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Clear: Working on the right objective yields 100x results; pure effort scales 20% | James Clear | Jan 1, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Clear: Working on the right objective yields 100x results; pure effort scales 20% | James Clear | Jan 1, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Clear: Working on the right objective yields 100x results; pure effort scales 20% | James Clear | Jan 1, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Clear: Executing two or three obvious basics delivers 80% of initial results | James Clear | Jan 1, 2026 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Harvey Firestone cut ad staff from 105 to 7 in 1920 crisis | Shane Parrish | Dec 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Robert Price: Fewer SKUs drastically cuts massive retail payroll costs | Shane Parrish | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Parrish: Henry Singleton repurchased 90% of Teledyne shares over 12 years | Shane Parrish | Dec 30, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 311% | “311%” | Parrish: Henry Singleton repurchased 90% of Teledyne shares over 12 years | Shane Parrish | Dec 30, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Jim Clayton: 80% of legal claims stem from poor customer service | Shane Parrish | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| 4B | “a three billion” | Parrish: Les Schwab built a $3B tire company while sharing 50% profits | Shane Parrish | Dec 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 2.2M | “2.2 million” | Poilievre: 2.2 Million Canadians Use Food Banks as Scurvy Returns | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Poilievre: Canada's 3% Population Growth Outpaces 1% Housing and Healthcare Growth | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Poilievre: Canada's 3% Population Growth Outpaces 1% Housing and Healthcare Growth | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Poilievre: Canada's 3% Population Growth Outpaces 1% Housing and Healthcare Growth | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Poilievre: Canada's 3% Population Growth Outpaces 1% Housing and Healthcare Growth | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Poilievre: Northwest BC pipeline would generate $30B annually in exports | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | — |
| $30B | “thirty billion dollars” | Poilievre: Northwest BC pipeline would generate $30B annually in exports | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Poilievre: Natural gas fetches 4x domestic price in Asia and Europe | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Poilievre: Mark Carney holds 90% of assets in US, dodges Canadian taxes | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | — |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Poilievre: Canada gave Stellantis $15B while Stellantis cut Canadian jobs | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Poilievre: Canada gave Stellantis $15B while Stellantis cut Canadian jobs | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Poilievre: Chief Billy Morin Cut Enoch Reserve Unemployment to 3% | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Poilievre: Chief Billy Morin Cut Enoch Reserve Unemployment to 3% | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Poilievre: $40B LNG Canada Project Is Canada's Largest Project Ever | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Poilievre: Pharmaceutical opioid over-prescription killed 500,000 Americans and 50,000 Canadians | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Ury: Securely attached people leave dating pools faster, skewing remaining demographics | Logan Ury | Dec 23, 2025 | Supported |
| $2B | “a A billion dollars” | Bernie Marcus Managed $1B in Merchandise at Two Guys by Age 28 | Shane Parrish | Dec 16, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 70% | “70%” | Bernie Marcus Managed $1B in Merchandise at Two Guys by Age 28 | Shane Parrish | Dec 16, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Marcus and Blank Expanded Handy Dan to 80 Stores Earning $3M Annually | Shane Parrish | Dec 16, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Ross Perot Demanded 70% of Home Depot for a $2 Million Investment | Shane Parrish | Dec 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Ross Perot Demanded 70% of Home Depot for a $2 Million Investment | Shane Parrish | Dec 16, 2025 | Supported |
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