Charles Duhigg Quotes
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The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.
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As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.
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It almost goes without saying that when you are a startup, one of the first things you do is you start setting aside money to defend yourself from patent lawsuits, because any successful company, even moderately successful, is going to get hit by a patent lawsuit from someone who's just trying to look for a payout.
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I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.
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Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.
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Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression.
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Many environmental advocates argue that agricultural pollution will be reduced only through stronger federal laws.
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Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'
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Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.
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In the past, NASDAQ has defended flash orders.
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Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'
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You can't suddenly say, 'I want a brand new habit tomorrow,' and expect it to be easy and effortless.
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When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'
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In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.
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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.
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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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Companies are very, very good - better than consumers themselves - at knowing what consumers are actually craving.
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We like songs that are familiar.
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Older consumers don't want to be treated like teenagers; what's more, they don't want to believe they fall into any niche at all.
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Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.
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Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system.
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Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.
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Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.
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Since cowardice must occur at a time and place where an enemy either has already appeared or may yet turn up, servicemen in peacetime - and ordinary civilians - can breathe a sigh of relief. If you are yellow-bellied back home, you're not technically a coward.