I started out as a canvasser…I walked the streets, I got listings, I c — Robert Futterman

"I remember everything…if you remember everything, then its easy to pass on what youve learned and relate those experiences to other people…Be a sponge, remember everything and articulate it accurately."

"I always thought that luck was a result of hard work, and the only way youre going to get lucky is if youre at the desk on Friday afternoon in August and the phone rings and you get the call and its a developer whos building a project that needs your help. If youre working, if youre there, if youre in the game, if you stay engaged and involved, thats how people get lucky. Luck doesnt just happen to people. They have to make it happen. And its in everybodys power, I think, to get lucky."

"I have kids and theyre millennials, so I see their patterns. I see how they get their news, I see how they communicate, I see how they socialize and do their shopping and eating habits and patterns. Being an owner of a company and a manager with an enormous amount of millennials in the workforce, my kids have helped me realize how different and how times have changed and how we have to adapt. I find the millennials to be fascinating."

"Theres no segment of the real estate market thats more exciting, creative, and forward-thinking than retail."

"Be extremely diligent, stay focused, don’t get off task, and dont forget what you do. If youre in retail leasing, dont try to sell hotels. Dont try to lease some industrial real warehouse in the Bronx. Dont try to do some office deal. Youre in retail. Stay focused in retail…Focus on what you do best."

"I live in the moment. The past is the past and I cant change anything about it and the future is all in my imagination. So, therefore, the only thing I can deal with is sitting here right now …by sticking to that and being totally transparent, it kind of tells you who I am and what Im about. And I think that for me is the essence of life. Thats the one thing."