Charles Duhigg Quotes
-
Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'
-
As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.
-
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.
-
Most shoppers don't buy everything they need at one store.
-
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
-
We like songs that are familiar.
-
One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.
-
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
-
What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
-
In 1940, Germany toppled France in 20 days, and the panzerdivizion symbolized war's shift from drawn-out conflicts using massive fortifications to rapid-fire engagements built around manned, motorized armor.
-
In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
-
When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
-
Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.
-
If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.
-
In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
-
The Great Bailout is mostly over for the banks. But for those troubled behemoths of the nation's housing bust, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the lifeline from Washington just keeps getting longer.
-
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.
-
Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
-
Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn.
-
Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare.
-
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how precisely they can sell.
-
During the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to make sure that what goes into toilets, industrial drains and street grates would not endanger human health.
-
You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.
-
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.