10 quotes from the book “The Power of HABIT” by Charles Duhigg by Muinuddin Bashar

In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.

Along the way, we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation’s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.


At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success are understanding how habits work.


Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.


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Here are 10 quotes from the book “The Power of HABIT”.

  1. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.
  2. You can’t extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
  3. If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.
  4. Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
  5. Companies aren’t families. They are battlefields in a civil war.
  6. Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it.
  7. Once you know a habit exists, you have the responsibility to change it.
  8. If you want to do something that requires willpower.
  9. There’s nothing you can’t do if you get the habits right.
  10. Small wins fuel transformative changes by leveraging tiny advantages into patterns that convince people that bigger achievements are within reach.


Special Quote: “Change might not be fast and it isn’t always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.”



"Develop a reading habit and change the course of your life." - Muinuddin Bashar



MUINUDDIN BASHAR ARONNO was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Currently, he is pursuing his B.Eng. degree in Electronics and Information Engineering from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. He loves working at the intersection of technology, business, and education. 


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