--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Howard Lutnick image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30b0d6e76be61f2f/6988a4e55f570fa212b226b9/howard-lutnick.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 07, 2016 # Howard Lutnick by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Howard Lutnick CEO, Cantor Fitzgerald Howard Lutnick CEO, Cantor FitzgeraldMarco Grob for TIME “Some people would say, ‘Weren’t you lucky that you weren’t there?’ If luck is defined by, I get to live, but all my friends, my brother and everyone gets killed, that’s a strange sort of luck. But the fact was that maybe it was the luck of my son’s school, that it was the first day of school.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/beyond-911/4476511/howard-lutnick-beyond-9-11/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/beyond-911/4476511/howard-lutnick-beyond-9-11/"},"headline":"Howard Lutnick","datePublished":"2016-09-07T21:17:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-08T07:54:08.764Z","description":"CEO, Cantor Fitzgerald","url":"https://time.com/collections/beyond-911/4476511/howard-lutnick-beyond-9-11/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30b0d6e76be61f2f/6988a4e55f570fa212b226b9/howard-lutnick.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30b0d6e76be61f2f/6988a4e55f570fa212b226b9/howard-lutnick.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/beyond-911/4476511/howard-lutnick-beyond-9-11/","name":"Howard Lutnick"}}]}] ```