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

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.