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Aristotle Onassis
Aristotle Onassis, the wealthy Greek shipping tycoon: Aristotle Onassis was the most famous and wealthy Greek shipping tycoon of the 20th century and probably one of the most successful businessman ever. He was born in Smyrna Turkey in 1906. His father, Socrates Onassis, was also in the shipping business. He had 10 ships and 40 sailors working for him and he did very well in his business. Hence, Aristotle and his sisters had the opportunity to go to reputed schools and educate, in a time that education was a rare thing.
From immigration to ship business
Smyrna of the early 20th century was a prosperous city with a large community of Greeks. However, things took an unpleasant turn after World War I, when the Turks started a serious pogrom against the Greeks and forced them to leave their homes. The father of Aristotle Onassis lost his job and they all moved to Athens.
However, Aristotle would not stay in Athens for long. He decided to go to Buenos Aires Argentina having only $60 in his pocket. There he got his first job at the British United River Plate Tele
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The legend of Aristotle Onassis is founded not only on his business acumen but also on the fact that he was always ahead of his time.
September 1922. Sixteen-year-old Aristotle Onassis sees Smyrna burning from the bridge of a ship. His birthplace is in flames, the family fortune has been destroyed, and his homeland has been lost. Young Aristotle (born in January 1906) flees the burning city. Along with hundreds of thousands of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, he makes it to Athens, where his family settles. A year later, in August 1923, he travels to Argentina on a Nansen passport (a passport issued to stateless refugees), in search of a better life and new opportunities.
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Aristotle Onassis on board of the yacht "Christina O"
Reinventing Onassis
The son of a well-to-do tobacco merchant, with some training in foreign languages and business from the Evangelical School of cosmopolitan Smyrna, Aristotle Onassis will start his business career in Buenos Aires. After a few months of working nig
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Aristotle Onassis
Greek and Argentine business magnate (1906–1975)
Aristotle Socrates Onassis (, ;[1]Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized: Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced[aristoˈtelisoˈnasis]; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975)[2] was a Greek and Argentine[3][4]business magnate. He amassed the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men.[5] He was married to Athina Mary Livanos, had a long-standing affair with opera singer Maria Callas and was married to American former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.[6]
Onassis was born in Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire to Greek parents and fled the city with his family to Greece in 1922 in the wake of the burning of Smyrna. 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 Rainier III for economic control of the country through his ownership of SBM and its Monte Carlo Casino. In the mid-1950s,
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