| 4M | “four million” | Housel: Forcing oneself to finish every book makes reading miserable | Morgan Housel | May 28, 2024 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | CD Baby scaled to $20M and 85 employees in four years | Derek Sivers | Jul 21, 2020 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 4M | “four million” | Koskinas: Greater Athens represents about 40% of Greece's total population | Aristotle Koskinas | Jan 5, 2017 | Supported |
| 3.9M | “3.9 million” | Housel: Forcing oneself to finish every book makes reading miserable | Morgan Housel | May 28, 2024 | — |
| 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 |
| 3M | “three million” | FedMart Generated $3M in First-Year Sales Against a $1M Projection | Shane Parrish | Aug 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Beshore: Permanent Equity targets $3M free cash flow for platform acquisitions | Brent Beshore | Jun 11, 2024 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Srinivasan: The Permanent US Government Is Unelected Bureaucrats, Media, and Academics | Balaji Srinivasan | Apr 5, 2022 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Cubitt: Hands-on VC work with struggling startups can preserve half the fund | Code Cubitt | Oct 27, 2020 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Marks: US lost 24M jobs to productivity gains versus 3M to China | Howard Marks | Mar 5, 2019 | Supported |
| 2.5M | “2.5 million” | Fairchild's 1959 buyout returned $250,000 per founder on a $500 investment | Shane Parrish | May 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 2.2M | “2.2 million” | Poilievre: 2.2 Million Canadians Use Food Banks as Scurvy Returns | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Bragg: First factory ran only 100,000 pounds against two-million-pound capacity | John Bragg | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Teen Vogue traffic surged to 12M and print subscribers tripled | Shane Parrish | Jun 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Hastings: Epic and Ikon sell around two million ski passes each | Reed Hastings | Jun 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Gawande: Healthcare infections from unwashed hands kill 100,000 people annually | Dr. Atul Gawande | Oct 2, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Robert Greene's "48 Laws of Power" is approaching two million copies sold. | Robert Greene | Jun 27, 2018 | Supported |
| 1.8M | “1.8 million” | Hetty Green Issued a Record $1.8M Mortgage on NYC's Stewart Building | Shane Parrish | Oct 7, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1.8M | “1.8 Million” | Teledyne Delivered 20.4% Annual Returns From 1963 to 1990 | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Tenev: Robinhood Retirement Has Over 1.5M Accounts | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Tenev: Robinhood Gold Card has over 500,000 cardholders | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | 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 |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Parrish: FedEx reached 220+ countries and 17M daily packages by 2025 | Shane Parrish | Sep 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Heacock lost $4.5M on his first $3.5M acquisition | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Ram Dass's Seva Foundation funded surgeries restoring sight to 5.5 million | Jack Kornfield | Jan 10, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Koskinas: 1.5 million Greeks and 500,000 Turks were relocated in 1923 exchange | Aristotle Koskinas | Jan 5, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.3M | “1.25 million” | Founder Dick Stack Sold Company to Children Under Brutal Financing Terms | Shane Parrish | Sep 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Teskey: AI robotics adoption will happen slower but impact more than expected | Connor Teskey | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | 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 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | FedMart Generated $3M in First-Year Sales Against a $1M Projection | Shane Parrish | Aug 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | The fail fast philosophy is dangerous in high-fixed-cost restaurant businesses. | Ron Shaich | Nov 11, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Parrish: Apple II Became First Computer to Sell One Million Units by 1983 | Shane Parrish | Nov 4, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Cool: Hiring a $100K employee represents a $1M capital allocation decision | Tracy Britt Cool | Oct 14, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Hetty Green Loaned Consolidated New York City $1M at Below-Market 2% Interest | Shane Parrish | Oct 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Vogue monthly traffic grew from 1M to 10M visitors under Wintour | Shane Parrish | Jun 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Parrish: US truck registrations grew from 215,000 to over one million between 1916 and 1920 | Shane Parrish | Jun 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Tan: Median YC startup raises $1M to $1.5M post-program | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Apple's retail strategy mirrors Estée Lauder's product demos and packaging obsession | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Only 20 of the 500,000 Books Published Annually Sell a Million Copies | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | The statistically optimal city size for athletic development is 250,000 people | Todd Herman | Nov 28, 2023 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Goldsmith: Conditioning self-worth on achievement results is a fool's game | Marshall Goldsmith | Dec 27, 2022 | — |
| 1M | “A million” | Parrish: Selling one million copies ranks a book in the top 0.001% | Shane Parrish | Oct 18, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 1M | “a million” | Goldsmith: Conditioning self-worth on achievement is a fool's game | Marshall Goldsmith | Jul 12, 2022 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | McGonigal: SuperBetter Has Helped Over One Million People Recover from Trauma | Jane McGonigal | Jan 19, 2021 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Lavingia: Gumroad raised $7M from Kleiner Perkins in 2012 and grew 60% annually | Sahil Lavingia | Dec 8, 2020 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Chamath: Running a $10B+ company is entirely about capital allocation | Chamath Palihapitiya | Oct 13, 2020 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Eyal: Force your boss to prioritize instead of just saying no | Nir Eyal | Feb 16, 2021 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | CD Baby scaled to $20M and 85 employees in four years | Derek Sivers | Jul 21, 2020 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1M | “a million” | Collins: Investing in proven, scaling flywheels beats trying to predict nascent ones | Jim Collins | Oct 1, 2019 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Tony Robbins offered Holiday double his rate for a million-copy bestseller | Ryan Holiday | May 16, 2016 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Koskinas: Athens absorbed 250,000 people in one year after 1922 | Aristotle Koskinas | Jan 5, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 100K | “a hundred thousand” | Authors Should Reject Traditional Publishing Deals Under $100,000 | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | — |
| 6K | “six thousand” | Koskinas: Athens Has Been Continuously Inhabited Since 3400 BCE | Aristotle Koskinas | Jan 5, 2017 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Pincus: Founders who compromise build companies they no longer want to run | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Liemandt: Alpha Spends $10,000 per Student on AI Compute | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tenev: Generative AI tools will increase creative output 100x to 1,000x | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Clear: Working on the right objective yields 100x results; pure effort scales 20% | James Clear | Jan 1, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | FedEx's Money-Back Guarantee Created More Accountability Than Corporate Meetings | Shane Parrish | Sep 9, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Parrish: Proper bee pollination increases wild blueberry yields up to eightfold | Shane Parrish | Aug 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Parrish: VisiCalc drove Apple sales from 1,000 to 10,000 units monthly | Shane Parrish | Nov 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tan: YC group partners read 1,000 to 1,500 applications per cycle | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Garry Tan: Software moats remain unchanged, but startups only need six employees | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Wolfe: Machines will replace white-collar knowledge workers while blue-collar craft is protected | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Codie Sanchez demands candidates turn around paid project scopes in 24 hours | Codie Sanchez | Jan 7, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Hoehn: The Right Cover or Thumbnail Outperforms Mediocre Designs 1,000x | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Hoehn: The average book sells fewer than 1,000 lifetime copies | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Fraser: Outway Was Started With $1,000 Each From Co-Founders | Rob Fraser | Oct 15, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Bragg: Honeybee pollination increases blueberry yields to 8,000-9,000 lbs/acre | John Bragg | Oct 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | John Bragg: Environmental rules forced $75k bridge for dry stream | John Bragg | Oct 1, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Halligan: Founder micromanagement turns from a strength into a weakness at scale | Brian Halligan | Aug 6, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Housel: A tiny fraction of outlier stocks drives majority of market returns | Morgan Housel | May 28, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Karp: Indigenous populations living ancestrally have zero modern lifestyle diseases | Jason Karp | Apr 4, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Creel: Precision Scheduled Railroading cut CP's active locomotives by one-third | Keith Creel | Nov 29, 2022 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Santos: Over 1,000 Yale Students Enrolled in Inaugural Happiness Course | Laurie Santos | Jun 14, 2022 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Roger Martin: Partial equilibrium economists outnumber general equilibrium thinkers a thousand to one | Roger Martin | Nov 24, 2020 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Cubitt: VC Funnels Lose Half Their Companies at Every Subsequent Financing Round | Code Cubitt | Oct 27, 2020 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Ackman: Dedicated black swan funds surged 1,000% in market crash | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Medium's 2.5MB payload to display text articles is 1,000x too big | Derek Sivers | Jul 21, 2020 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Fry: Pre-2018 UK epidemiological models relied on a tiny 2006 survey | Hannah Fry | Jul 7, 2020 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Perel: Parents credited Holocaust survival primarily to sheer luck | Esther Perel | Dec 10, 2019 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Howard Marks: Investors shouldn't self-flagellate over mistakes if process was sound | Howard Marks | Mar 5, 2019 | — |
| 1K | “A thousand” | Arbesman: Drafting a book requires writing 1,000 unjudged words per day | Sam Arbesman | Nov 28, 2016 | — |
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