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Top 30 Quotes by Aristotle Onassis
“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.”
“If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.”
“I have no friends and no enemies – only competitors.”
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”
“After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.”
“The more you own, the more you know you don’t own.”
“Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.”
“To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.”
“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.”
“Since I’m 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.”
“Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.”
“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.”
“Find a priest who understands English and doesn’t look like Rasputin.”
“I guess the kid had everything but the luck.”
“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.”
“To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“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.”
“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future.”
“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.”
“If someone does something that you don’t agree with, you discuss it with them, and then you move on.”
“To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.”
“Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.”
“Never ask for small loans.”
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
“Wealth comes from knowing what others do not know.”
“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.”
“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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