Aristotle Onassis Quotes

#1. During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

J. Paul Getty

#2. I was one of the first people to learn that Jackie was going to marry Aristotle Onassis.

Pierre Salinger

#3. Aristotle Onassis rescued me at a moment when my life was engulfed with shadows. He brought me into a world where one could find both happiness and love. We lived through many beautiful experiences together which cannot be forgotten, and for which I will be eternally grateful.

Jackie Kennedy

#4. The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

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#5. It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works.

Bernard Cornwell

#6. Seek to know your sacred soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

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#8. To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

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#9. After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

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#10. Since I am 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.

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#11. Find your happiness before the music of this world falls on deaf ears.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#12. For younger kids, repetition is really valuable. They demand it. When they see a show over and over again, they not only are understanding it better, which is a form of power, but just by predicting what is going to happen, I think they feel a real sense of affirmation and self-worth.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

William Shatner

#16. Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.

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#17. I guess the kid had everything but the luck.

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#18. The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

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#19. You are not truly wealthy unless you earn money while you are sleeping

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#20. There are men on that Commission who would steal the brakes off a mountain railway just before they went down in it...It's a struggle with suicidal imbeciles.

The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Location 59)

H.G.Wells

#21. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

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#22. To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.

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#23. The only rule is there are no rules.

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#24. You don't have to speak at all
I know what you'd say ...
- Laura

Wilkie Collins

#25. The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.

Rebecca Solnit

#26. Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?

Stephen Hawking

#27. Let your youth have free reign. It won't come again, so be bold, and no repenting.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#28. I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

Susan Orlean

#29. I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind.

Jim Croce

#30. 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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#31. 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.

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#32. Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

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

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#34. Wealth comes from knowing
what others do not know.

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#35. Trusting anyone can get you killed.

Zoe Marriott

#36. Never ask for small loans.

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#37. Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.

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#38. I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

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#39. Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

Neal Shusterman

#40. 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.

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#41. Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.

Hugh B. Brown

#42. It's during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

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#43. 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.

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