Aristotle Onassis



Aristotle Sokrates Onassis (15 January 1906 – 15 March 1975) was a Greek shipping magnate.

Quotes

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


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


 * If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
 * Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)