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" 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? "

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" 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. "

Howard Lutnick

Business

Going

Knowledge

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

" I have great kids and family. "

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

" Washington is not the engine of the economy. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

Howard Lutnick

Interest

Percent

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" After Hurricane Sandy, we adopted 19 elementary schools in tough neighborhoods. We took each kid in those schools and gave the family a prepaid Visa card. "

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

Howard Lutnick

Human Being

Meant To Be

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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