John Catsimatidis
John Catsimatidis
John A. Catsimatidisis 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. Virgin Islands. Catsimatidis also owns the Hellenic Times, a Greek-American newspaper based in Manhattan. He is also the chairman and CEO of the Red...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 September 1948
It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.
It seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.
New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.
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.
It will be almost impossible for any other candidate to raise the money that the Clintons can raise.
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.
We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.
There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.
As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.
I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.
I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.
I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.
Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.
I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.