Aristotle Onassis
Aristotle Onassis
Aristotle Socrates Onassis, commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, was a Greek shipping magnate. Onassis amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He was known for his business success, his great wealth and also his personal life, including his marriage to Athina Livanos, daughter of shipping tycoon Stavros G. Livanos, his affair with the opera singer Maria Callas and his marriage in 1968 to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 January 1906
CityIzmir, Turkey
Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.
I guess the kid had everything but the luck.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
The more you own, the more you know you don't own.
Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Wealth comes from knowing what others do not know.
Since I'm known as a 'rich person', I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year.
In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.
To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
The only rule is there are no rules.
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.
To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.