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John Catsimatidis [1948-0] Greek

John A. Catsimatidis is a Greek-American billionaire businessman and radio talk show host. He is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes Foods, the largest grocery chain in Manhattan, and the Red Apple Group, a real estate and aviation company with about $700 million to $800 million in holdings in New York, Florida, and the U.S.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Material things don't matter.		101
The media doesn't always reflect reality.		102
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.		103
Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.		104
Pizza is no longer on my diet.	Diet	105
We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.		106
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.		107
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.		108
Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.		109
It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.		110
Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.		111
I'm a New York businessman.		112
I'm the same businessman Donald Trump is.		113
It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.		114
I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.		115
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.		116
What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.		117
As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.		118
The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.		119
What's worse than getting divorced?		120
Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.	Sad	121
There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.		122
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.		123
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.		124
I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.		125
I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.		126
I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.		201
We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.		202
It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.		203
I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics.		204
I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.		205
I could have beat Obama.		206
I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'		207
I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.		208
All my life, I've been winning, ok?		209
I care about making New York better.		210
I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.		211
I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.		212
Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.		213
I want to inspire people.		214
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.		215
I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.		216
New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.		217
I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.		218
I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.		219
I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.		220
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.		221
I'm a Bill Clinton social Republican.		222
My life would be better without Gristedes.		223
My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.		224
You have to work at everything. You've got to make it work.		225
America always recovers.		226
While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.		301
I love people. I enjoy people.		302
I'm tough, but I have a heart.		303
I made a ton of money.		304
I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.		305
I have a love factor with the minorities.		306
People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'		307
Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.		308

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