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Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Consumer Habits How Key Launch Product Understanding

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Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Advantage Age Codes Giants Industrial Taken Tax Technology Written

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The specific steps for changing a specific habit differ from person to person and habit to habit, but the steps - the formula - is essentially the same, and once you learn it, you can do amazing things.

~Charles Duhigg

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Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn't go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Agreement Basically Belly Bond Credit Default Go Goes Insurance Just Long Me Own Pay Promise Sell Selling Some Swap Up Where You

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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.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Biggest Capitalist Defending Depression Free Free Markets Great Great Depression Had Hank Happy His Life Markets Now Pursuing Secretary Since Spent Treasury Warrior Who

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For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Aristotle Behaviors Evidence Habits Occur Our Selves Supreme Truest

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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.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Brains Climber Desire Face Like Minimize Ocean Push Risk Rock Safety Sailors Scale Seduced Solo Southern Strong Subconsciously Summit

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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Agents Been Century Experts Foremost Insurance Risk Since

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In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Among Boats Compensate Constitutions Edward London Lost Mathematical Men Minds Offered Opened Owners Popular Sea Were Who Wigs

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Merrill Lynch is this hugely prestigious brand.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Brand Hugely Prestigious

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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