John Catsimatidis Quotes

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

People say law but they mean wealth.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

If money doesn’t make any difference, how come the rich spend so much on their schools?

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

Surrounded by the evidence of their success, the wealthy come to believe that they are fundamentally better than other Americans and that working people deserve their declining fortunes. They trumpet meritocracy while ensuring that their children enjoy crushing advantages from birth. They have unprecedented access to politicians and use it to push policies that swell their wealth while defunding institutions, such as public education, that sustain opportunities for less-fortunate Americans.

The best way to earn a fortune in America is to already have one.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

I do not like the rich.

In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don't.

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'