Howard Lutnick

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

In this business, technology is life or death.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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