John Catsimatidis Quotes

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John Catsimatidis

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 7, 1948

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

John Catsimatidis

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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Pizza is no longer on my diet.

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Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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I made a ton of money.

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

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I'm a New York businessman.

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I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.

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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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I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

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What's worse than getting divorced?

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