"I worked during summers on the foreign exchange desk as a dollar/yen broker for Noonan, Astley &..." — Howard Lutnick

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.

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

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.

In this business, technology is life or death.