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" I believe in what I call 'the surfer's theory.' You see a really, really big wave. You keep surfing, keep going forward. You just don't look back. "

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" The combination of Cantor and eSpeed will earn more money and be more profitable than we ever were before September 11. "

" The people in Washington spend too much time in Washington, so they think Washington-centric thoughts. "

" In 1997, clients balked at self-ordering. They thought it was beneath them. But in 1998, a sea change in perception came, thanks to the rise of the Net and online trading. The concept of doing it yourself was not crazy. "

" If people say I paid someone more because I liked them, okay. I don't think that's a bad thing. "

" The World Trade Center was the target for the world, and they hit the target. "

" You can't make promises you can't keep. "

" Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up. "

" The best way to show someone you love them is to care for the people they love. "

" Data drives success. That is how we began our success with eSpeed. It was always based on the data. "

" Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body. "

" I worked during summers on the foreign exchange desk as a dollar/yen broker for Noonan, Astley & Pierce. I used to write the chairman notes about how he could improve his business. And I met Bernie Cantor through this job. "

" Anything commodity-like will be sold online. The world is going to trade commodities like it trades stocks. "

" The idea that big buyside firms are going to come in and trade mano-a-mano with high-frequency trading firms shows a lack of knowledge of the business. "

" eSpeed took the worst that the world could dish out, and it still stood and performed. "

" Our whole lives, did any of us actually think a quarter of a percent was actually an interest rate? "

" New York is a spectacular place, and those who are jealous of the way we live our lives are always going to, you know, to strike out, and, you know, we're always going to be a target, sadly. London is going to be a target. You know, anywhere in the West, you're a target. "

" Haverford was there for me and taught me what it meant to be a human being. "

" When you take away all the people whose shoulders a CEO stands on, the CEO is just a person. "

" It's the details that make people distinct, that make them individuals. "

" You have to give people more than one chance. We hire people in job A, and if it doesn't work out, we try them on job B. We'll generally give them three different tries. You have to be more committed to training, but you know they have the right stuff because someone you think highly of has recommended them. "

" For us to be successful, we have to kick our competitors' butt. "

" Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth. "

" I have great kids and family. "

" People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them. "

" I would blast AC/DC and walk out onto the tennis court and try to hit the ball hard. "

" The only reason to have money is to share it with your friends and have fun. "

" It's hard for bad things to happen when you have no debt. "

" Washington is not the engine of the economy. "

" What people really haven't thought about with real estate is, if you get tax reform, you're going to see real estate now... the velocity of selling and buying real estate will just kick. "

" My goal after 9/11 was to take care of the families of the people we lost, and that was the most important thing. "