List of Charles Duhigg Quotes

America Is The Saudi Arabia Of Coal.

Companies Aren’t Families. They’re Battlefields In A Civil War. Yet Despite This Capacity For Internecine Warfare, Most Companies Roll Along Relatively Peacefully, Year After Year, Because They Have Routines—habits—that Create Truces That Allow Everyone To Set Aside Their Rivalries Long Enough To Get A Day’s Work Done.

The Same Process That Makes Aa So Effective—the Power Of A Group To Teach Individuals How To Believe—happens Whenever People Come Together To Help One Another Change. Belief Is Easier When It Occurs Within A Community.

Research Suggests That Investment Bankers Are More Prone To Commit Fraud When They Feel The Competitor At Their Heels.

I Think I'm Smart, And I Know I Was A Good Mom. But There Wasn't A Lot I Could Point To And Say, That's Why I'm Special.

The Waste From Power Plants Is Essentially What Is Left Over When You Burn Coal. And As We All Know, Coal Is A Relatively Dirty Mineral.

Some Say Because Music Is As Much About Personal Expression As Listening Pleasure, Sharing Is Integral To Why Songs Have Value In The First Place.

But Countless Studies Have Shown That A Cue And A Reward, On Their Own, Aren't Enough For A New Habit To Last. Only When Your Brain Starts Expecting The Reward--craving The Endorphins Or Sense Of Accomplishment--will It Become Automatic To Lace Up Your Jogging Shoes Each Morning. The Cue, In Addition To Triggering A Routine, Must Also Trigger A Craving For The Reward To Come.

There's A Natural Instinct Embedded In Friendship, A Sympathy That Makes Us Willing To Fight For Someone We Like When They Are Treated Unjustly.

The Cooperation Of Nascar - Or Any Other System, It Turns Out - Persists Only When Everyone Believes He Has The Opportunity To Win.

As People Strengthened Their Willpower Muscles In One Part Of Their Lives—in The Gym, Or A Money Management Program—that Strength Spilled Over Into What They Ate Or How Hard They Worked. Once Willpower Became Stronger, It Touched Everything.

When People Have A Willpower Failure, It's Because They Haven't Anticipated A Situation That's Going To Come Along.