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Aristotle Socrates Onassis , commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, was a Greek shipping magnate who 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 Mary Livanos . He was also known for his affair with famous opera singer Maria Callas and his 1968 marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of American President John F. Kennedy.Onassis was born in Smyrna and fled the city with his family to Greece in 1922 in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War. He moved to Argentina in 1923 and established himself as a tobacco trader and later a shipping owner during the Second World War. Moving to Monaco, Onassis fought Prince Rainer III for economic control of the country through his ownership of SBM and its Monte Carlo Casino. In the mid-1950s, he sought to secure an oil shipping arrangement with Saudi Arabia and engaged in whaling expeditions. In the 1960s, Onassis attempted to establish a large investment contract—Project Omega—with the Greek military junta, and he sold Olympic Airways, which he had founded in 1957. Onassis was greatly affected by the death of his 24-year-old son, Alexander, in a plane crash in 1973, and he died two years later.



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✵ 20. January 1906 – 15. March 1975  •  Other names Aristotle Socrates Onassis
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Famous Aristotle Onassis Quotes

“If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”

Aristotle Onassis

Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

“Actual quote: "Once in a while, to please the ladies, we go down [illegible: 2 words], pretending to be civilized. (p. 109)”

Aristotle Onassis

“Five tankers—and the only time I had to put my hand in my pocket was to scratch my balls.”

Aristotle Onassis

Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978), p. 118 (p. 107 in the 1986 Summit Books edition)
About his five tankers made in Sparrow Point, Baltimore, MD in 1948

“I guess the kid had everything but the luck.”

Aristotle Onassis

Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978) (p. 217 in the 1986 Summit Books edition)
About Bobby Kennedy's death

“Cold and sharp in the edges, full of fire and warm under the surface”

Aristotle Onassis

Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978) p. 299
Comparing Jackie Kennedy to a diamond

“I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.”

Aristotle Onassis

Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978) (p. 73 in the 1986 Summit Books edition)

“Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.”

Aristotle Onassis

Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978) (p. 283 in the 1986 Summit Books edition)

“Sometimes, to please the ladies, we drop down our weapons pretending we are civilized.”

Aristotle Onassis

Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978),
During his wedding (Terrace Room - Plaza) with Tina Livanos about [Stavros Niarchos]

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