https://minutesof.com/on/statistics/ Everyone on the record about statistics: 17 verbatim quotes from 6 people, October 2010 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:16 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/6fa3e057-9172-4498-9a65-4b2bbb002978/ https://minutesof.com/q/6fa3e057-9172-4498-9a65-4b2bbb002978/ “homicides in this country plummeted to their lowest levels in a hundred and twenty six years.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:00:19 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/6cc456b7-6692-462a-91a5-a98ab49c1dd1/ https://minutesof.com/q/6cc456b7-6692-462a-91a5-a98ab49c1dd1/ “We're currently experiencing in The United States Of America the largest reduction in violent crime in the history of our country, homicides.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:30:09 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/9a10c095-5f00-4477-bfee-765ba21eafc8/ https://minutesof.com/q/9a10c095-5f00-4477-bfee-765ba21eafc8/ “Do you know that all net job growth over the past eighteen months went to native born Americans, reversing a trend for four years where it all went to other people?” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:00:25 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/c99a0efe-5954-4142-9655-3a3ce8ede630/ https://minutesof.com/q/c99a0efe-5954-4142-9655-3a3ce8ede630/ “So the the the And the availability of that $1,700,000,000,000 put a lot of people into business and made a lot of people extremely successful along with a very favorable economy” — Howard Marks, Prof G Markets Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:07 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/b3534b4c-5ec2-4aed-bd9d-ac0a10284774/ https://minutesof.com/q/b3534b4c-5ec2-4aed-bd9d-ac0a10284774/ “It's a family owned business based out of Wichita founded in 1940 by Fred Koch with businesses ranging from energy, agriculture, chemicals, building products, consumer products, even cloud computing, and a very active minority investment portfolio a 120,000 plus employees, that statistic might be off across 60 countries.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 12 May 2026 21:17:30 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/8d6aa7fc-f3d5-4673-8894-4acc6e937aec/ https://minutesof.com/q/8d6aa7fc-f3d5-4673-8894-4acc6e937aec/ “five years after college, forty percent of people are no longer working in the field that was their major. And that number gets bigger at 10.” — Bill Gurley, Chris Williamson Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:00:16 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/0130f5f7-ef93-449e-b6c9-3498373b6cfa/ https://minutesof.com/q/0130f5f7-ef93-449e-b6c9-3498373b6cfa/ “I launched a survey on SurveyMonkey that said, if you could go back and start over, would you would you do a different career? And seven out of 10 people said yes.” — Bill Gurley, Chris Williamson Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:00:16 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/6c5dd4a6-b73a-4562-8fec-367c13891e92/ https://minutesof.com/q/6c5dd4a6-b73a-4562-8fec-367c13891e92/ “Gallup did a poll in 2023 where only 23% of people feel engaged at work. And they qualified like 59% as quiet quitting.” — Bill Gurley, Afford Anything Podcast Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/51f60a5f-e143-48db-a3f9-387baff3fcf9/ https://minutesof.com/q/51f60a5f-e143-48db-a3f9-387baff3fcf9/ “But a lot of people do. There's Dave Evans at Stanford who does the Designing Your Life class and book, you know, they highlight that like four years, five years out, 40% of people are no longer doing the work that was in their major.” — Bill Gurley, Afford Anything Podcast Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/e5d5ab0b-d466-4bc8-908a-e45ba2aecc79/ https://minutesof.com/q/e5d5ab0b-d466-4bc8-908a-e45ba2aecc79/ “58% of people say they're not engaged at work. 15 of those 58 say they're quiet quitting. These are horrible numbers.” — Bill Gurley, Scott D. Clary - Success Story Podcast Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:44:44 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/9b9a8485-ffe8-44cf-9bd0-f2ac2c6f8268/ https://minutesof.com/q/9b9a8485-ffe8-44cf-9bd0-f2ac2c6f8268/ “My salary will go from $1.30 to 200 if I become a manager and hire four people. Fast forward thirty years, 10% of staff as administrators to 60% of staff as administrators.” — David Friedberg, Network State Podcast Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:30:07 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/5469de78-5434-4fb2-98b6-60d31df726ef/ https://minutesof.com/q/5469de78-5434-4fb2-98b6-60d31df726ef/ “something like probably 99% of all startups fail, probably something like 90% of all the investments that venture capital funds make fail.” — Howard Marks, The Church Sag Harbor Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:45:03 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/58097da2-3386-49e4-a1a0-9bde50f2e057/ https://minutesof.com/q/58097da2-3386-49e4-a1a0-9bde50f2e057/ “The four zero one k program in this country now has $13,000,000,000,000 in it. 75,000,000,000 is contributed annually.” — Brad Gerstner, Milken Institute Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:55:21 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/c8c3f001-6b87-4897-9645-98aeee4d23d6/ https://minutesof.com/q/c8c3f001-6b87-4897-9645-98aeee4d23d6/ “today on planet Earth, there's about 800,000,000 people worldwide that still live on less than 1,200 calories a day. They are technically deemed malnourished by the UN, by the FAO.” — David Friedberg, TED Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/7feaf7b1-fda2-4797-a078-405bd04c3287/ https://minutesof.com/q/7feaf7b1-fda2-4797-a078-405bd04c3287/ “Bear in mind when you're talking about Egypt, forty four percent of the population is illiterate and exists on less than $2 a day.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Cambridge Union Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:29:16 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/1b02c622-7b77-4766-9564-4da21d2f9670/ https://minutesof.com/q/1b02c622-7b77-4766-9564-4da21d2f9670/ “The odds of the guy of being the guy on the left are according to a study and I put the URL up there, point 0006%.” — David Friedberg, Stanford eCorner Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:24:09 +0000 statistics https://minutesof.com/q/7c275de9-0f7c-4fb4-b11d-a8bef2730f95/ https://minutesof.com/q/7c275de9-0f7c-4fb4-b11d-a8bef2730f95/ “the number of IPOs, as Michael mentioned, have been 30 in the first half of this year versus five in 'eight and twelve in 'nine.” — Bill Gurley, TechCrunch Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:16:15 +0000 statistics