Once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom and the responsibility to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp and the only option left is to get to work.

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.

Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a greater sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

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.

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

Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.