You are an idiot...you "know a guy" that works for Verathon and you are so involved in our business that you are concerned about the quotas? Mmmmms... You need to get a life if you are so interested in the NYC quota and you don't work here...OR (probably much more likely) you are an under performing rep spending way to much time on why you never make you numbers. If you would of listened to his talk and not heard it from your "friend" I hope it would of set it in....people defy the odds, saturation, and kill the competition all the time. Read a self help book...it will tell you the same thing. The cream always rises...what he said was stop feeling sorry for yourself, we all have obstacles so get out there and figure it out...many reps do and are still killing it.
Get a real job where you don't pry in your "friends" jobs OR acknowledge that you work here and you made up your mind to fail along time ago and are looking for reasons to validate your own decision and are picking on his talk of defying the odds. Every single year there are success stories that of territories that defy odds... For example...South Carolina is killing it...why-sold rep-consistent work.
Tell your "friend" to go work or get a new job. Picking on the NYC rep who has crushed him year after year is a waste of his energy.....