Quotes from Howard Lutnick

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.