328 Quotes by Charles Duhigg

There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can't replicate.

Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.

In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.

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.

If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.

In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.

Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.

People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.