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" 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. "

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Howard Lutnick

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

" People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher? "

" Personally, I find it odd that they would name it One World Trade Center. Frankly, I think if they named it any company name, I would think it was - you know, the memorial is beautiful, but I don't know why they don't change the name. That just seems so odd to me. "

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

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

" I have great kids and family. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" In this business, technology is life or death. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" With management and employees on the same side of the table, your interests are aligned, and shareholders look at you as one. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Howard Lutnick

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" The Cantor reputation is one we get from clients and those we hire. "

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

" Washington is not the engine of the economy. "

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