Howard Lutnick

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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