Howard Lutnick

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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