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" 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. "
Family
Tough
Kid
" Anything commodity-like will be sold online. The world is going to trade commodities like it trades stocks. "
Online
Trade
Going
" Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body. "
Athletics
Body
Books
" Data drives success. That is how we began our success with eSpeed. It was always based on the data. "
Data
Success
Drives
" Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up. "
Great
Interest
Interest Rates
" eSpeed took the worst that the world could dish out, and it still stood and performed. "
Still
Out
Worst
" For us to be successful, we have to kick our competitors' butt. "
Butt
Kick
Successful
" Haverford was there for me and taught me what it meant to be a human being. "
Human Being
Me
Meant To Be
" 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. "
Believe
Forward
Keep Going
" If people say I paid someone more because I liked them, okay. I don't think that's a bad thing. "
Think
Okay
People
" I have great kids and family. "
Family
Great
Kids
" 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. "
Yourself
Thought
Change
" In this business, technology is life or death. "
Business
Life
Death
" It's hard for bad things to happen when you have no debt. "
Bad
You
Things
" It's the details that make people distinct, that make them individuals. "
People
Details
Distinct
" 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. "
Business
Through
Job
" I would blast AC/DC and walk out onto the tennis court and try to hit the ball hard. "
Court
Try
Walk
" My goal after 9/11 was to take care of the families of the people we lost, and that was the most important thing. "
Lost
People
Care
" 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. "
Live
Know
Jealous
" Our whole lives, did any of us actually think a quarter of a percent was actually an interest rate? "
Us
Interest
Percent
" 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? "
Work
Time
Value
" People looked to rating agencies to do the work for them. "
Them
People
Looked
" 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. "
Think
Beautiful
You
" The best way to show someone you love them is to care for the people they love. "
Care
Best
You
" The Cantor reputation is one we get from clients and those we hire. "
Get
Those
Reputation
" The combination of Cantor and eSpeed will earn more money and be more profitable than we ever were before September 11. "
Than
Will
September
" 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. "
Business
Going
Knowledge
" The only reason to have money is to share it with your friends and have fun. "
Reason
Money
Friends
" The people in Washington spend too much time in Washington, so they think Washington-centric thoughts. "
People
Think
Too Much
" The World Trade Center was the target for the world, and they hit the target. "
Center
World
Trade
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