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 seems everyone knows the value of a cantaloupe or a quart of milk.
I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
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.
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.
Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.
I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.
My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.
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.
Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.
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.
I have a love factor with the minorities.
There are two New Yorks - Manhattan and everything else. I'm a Manhattanite. I feel sorry for those people who aren't.