John Catsimatidis quotes:

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  • I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics.

  • Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.

  • I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

  • I care about making New York better.

  • When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

  • Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

  • I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.

  • I'm not ashamed of being successful. You know, they criticized Romney for being ashamed of it. I think we've got to inspire our kids that we shouldn't be ashamed to be successful.

  • I'm the same businessman Donald Trump is.

  • I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.

  • People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'

  • I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.

  • Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.

  • I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

  • I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.

  • New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.

  • You have to work at everything. You've got to make it work.

  • Pizza is no longer on my diet.

  • The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.

  • One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

  • While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.

  • Material things don't matter.

  • I want to inspire people.

  • America always recovers.

  • There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.

  • The media doesn't always reflect reality.

  • My life would be better without Gristedes.

  • We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.

  • All my life, I've been winning, ok?

  • It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.

  • In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

  • I have a love factor with the minorities.

  • I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

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