A biography for John Catsimatidishasn’t been written yet.
“People tell me, 'You better lose weight if you want to run for mayor.' I said, 'I got the Chris Christie look.'”
“I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.”
“I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.”
“What transpired at Semgroup was no less than a $500 billion fraud on the people of the world.”
“Material things don't matter.”
“Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.”
“All my life, I've been winning, ok?”
“I'm a New York businessman.”
“I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.”
“New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.”
“I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.”
“The Fresh Direct model doesn't work.”
“I could have beat Obama.”
“I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'”
“I'm the same businessman Donald Trump is.”
“Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.”
“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.”
“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.”
“While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.”
“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.”