Before 9/11, we wanted to do things on our own. And then after 9/11, I — Howard Lutnick

"Before 9/11, we wanted to do things on our own. And then after 9/11, I just wanted to be partners with everybody. I feel like working with other firms, working with other companies, working with other people just builds a stronger foundation beneath you. And I needed the breadth and scale of that foundation beneath me. So Im much more attuned to working together with others, to being partners with others, to creating broad coalitions and thats what Cantor Fitzgerald has set out to do. It works really, really well with all sorts of other companies. And thats the key part of whats made us successful."

Howard Lutnick

Howard Lutnick

Howard Lutnick

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Howard William Lutnick is an American businessman and government official who has served as the 41st United States secretary of commerce since 2025.

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"Well, I dont know if they were surprised or not, but if you just think for a second of what the people of Cantor Fitzgerald went through, to lose all their friends, their co-workers, all the people they worked together closely with and cared about. I mean, the emotions were very, very high. I dont think theres a single person at Cantor Fitzgerald who could say that they werent, you know, just completely torn apart by what happened. It was the most difficult of circumstances."

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