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Aristotle Onassis Quotes

20 quotes from Aristotle Onassis — Greek shipping magnate who built one of the world's largest private fleets..

At your job, you must be serious but in life, you must be crazy.

Life

If there weren't any women all the money in the world wouldn't matter.

Relationships

Never start a job, a battle, or a relationship, if the fear of losing overshadows the prospect of success.

Courage

Take care of your body. Be as good as you can with it. Don't mind the details. Look at me, I look nothing like a Greek God, but I never wasted my time crying over the bad aspects of myself, remember things are only as bad as you think they are.

Self-acceptance

Every win is an injustice to someone.

Competition

The secret in business is knowing something nobody else knows.

Business

The rule is there are no rules.

Business

After a certain point, money ceases to matter, it stops being the goal, the game is all that matters.

Wealth

Crises give birth to moguls.

Perseverance

I don't have friends or enemies, I have competitors.

Competition

It is in our darkest moments where we have to focus to see the light.

Hope

To be successful you have to act big, think big, and talk big.

Success

Be either rich or an enemy of the rich. I understand both, but never be envious of the rich and try to please them at the same time.

Wealth

To be happy make sure you are tanned, live in expensive buildings, even if you have to stay in the cellar, go out to expensive restaurants, even if you can only afford one drink and if you have to borrow, borrow a lot.

Happiness

I don't oppose gambling. I understand it. My whole life has been a terrific gamble.

Aristotle Onassis

My favorite country is the one that grants maximum immunity from taxes, trade restrictions, and unreasonable regulations.

Aristotle Onassis, Town & Country, 1964

All that really counts these days is money. It's the people with money who are the royalty now.

TIME, March 1975

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 nurse one drink), and if you borrow, borrow big.

Aristotle Onassis

There was just a natural curiosity; after all, we were the most famous Greeks alive in the world.

Aristotle Onassis, on Maria Callas

I never gamble, it doesn't amuse me. I don't oppose it. I understand it. My whole life has been a terrific gamble.

Aristotle Onassis

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