Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Aristotle Onassis (Greek Shipping Magnate)

Aristotle Socrates Onassis (1906–75) was an Argentine-Greek shipping magnate. He amassed the world’s largest privately-owned shipping fleet and became one of the world’s richest and most famous men. He was sometimes called the “Golden Greek” for his Midas touch in business.

Born in Smyrna, modern-day Izmir, Turkey, Onassis’s prosperous family was a tobacco merchant. In 1922 during the Greco-Turkish War, the family fled the city to Greece and lost almost everything. Onassis moved to Argentina in 1923 and established himself as a tobacco trader and later a shipping owner during the Second World War.

In Buenos Aires, Onassis became a nightshift switchboard operator and built a prosperous tobacco-importing business during his daytime hours. In due course, he started to manufacture cigarettes. During the Great Depression, Onassis bought six Canadian freight ships at a bargain price, acquired oil tankers, and launched a shipping business. It grew into one of the world’s largest independent merchant fleets.

Onassis was also a pioneer in the construction of supertankers. In the mid-1950s, he secured oil-shipping arrangements with Saudi Arabia and engaged in whaling expeditions to supply the Japanese market. He was also the founder of the Greek national airline, Olympic Airways (1957.)

Onassis became known for his marriage to Athina Mary Livanos 1946–60 (daughter of the shipping tycoon Stavros G. Livanos) and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy 1968–75 (the widow of American President John F. Kennedy.) Onassis had an affair with famous opera singer Maria Callas.

American writer L J Davis wrote the biography Onassis: Aristotle and Christina (1986.)

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
Topics: Business

Don’t worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek God. Don’t get too much sleep and don ‘t tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as though you have just come back from somewhere expensive: maintain an elegant address even if you have to live in the attic. Never nickel when short of cash. Borrow big, but always repay promptly.
Aristotle Onassis
Topics: Business

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
Topics: Secrets of Success, Merit, Success & Failure, Success, Business

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis
Topics: Women, Money, Meaning

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
Aristotle Onassis
Topics: Money

After a certain point money is meaningless. It’s the game that counts.
Aristotle Onassis
Topics: Money

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