Aristotle Onassis

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

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.

Aristotle Onassis

I have no friends and no enemies – only competitors.

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I’ve just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.

Aristotle Onassis

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

Aristotle Onassis

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.

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Never ask for small loans.

Aristotle Onassis

The more you own, the more you know you don’t own.

Aristotle Onassis

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Aristotle Onassis

Find a priest who understands English and doesn’t look like Rasputin.

Aristotle Onassis