"When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel……" — Charles Duhigg
"When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him."
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Charles Duhigg
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138 Quotes by Charles Duhigg
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new…
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Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired…
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we…
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
— Theodore Beale
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A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various…
— Dalai Lama
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever…
— Ayn Rand
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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish,…
— Richard J. Foster
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Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always…
— Dian Fossey
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Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious…
— Karl Rahner
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If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
— Robert A. Heinlein
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There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered,…
— Roger N. Walsh
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The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
— Max Beerbohm
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