Top 60 John Catsimatidis Quotes
#2. It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#8. I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.
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#9. I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics.
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#11. I believe business has to do well and that the surrounding communities do well.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#15. It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.
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#16. We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.
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#18. I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.
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#19. New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.
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#23. Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.
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#26. We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.
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#27. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#31. Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.
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#32. I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.
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#33. Anytime you cut food stamps, it naturally affects sales. People spend less.
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#34. I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.
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#38. Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
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#39. There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.
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#40. Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
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#42. 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.
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#43. While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.
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#44. 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.
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#45. I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'
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#48. What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.
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#50. My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.
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#51. I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.
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#53. Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.
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#57. People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'
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#59. I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.
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#60. 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.
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