Top 147 Quotes by Charles Duhigg

About Charles Duhigg

These are some quotes by American author Charles Duhigg Journalist, who was born in 1974.

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

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

Charles Duhigg

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

Charles Duhigg

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.

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.

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For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.

For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.

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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.

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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

Charles Duhigg

Companies are very, very good - better than consumers themselves - at knowing what consumers are actually craving.

Companies are very, very good - better than consumers themselves - at knowing what consumers are actually craving.

Charles Duhigg

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.

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.

Charles Duhigg

Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare.

Charles Duhigg

Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe.

Charles Duhigg

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