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

Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

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.

As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.

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