In 1930, the 24-year-old Onassis had 1 million assets, but just in time for the global economic crisis to break out, the sea trade was paralyzed, Onassis insisted on buying 6 more cargo ships, everyone thought he lost his mind, who knew that he made a fortune and eventually became a billionaire.
October 20, 1968, was a sad day for Americans.
On this day, there was a sensational wedding, the bride was Kennedy's widow Jacqueline, and the groom was the Greek ship king Onassis.
The first lady of the United States married a foreigner, which was the first time in the history of the United States, and Americans felt very humiliated.
But for Onassis, it was just another new Greek myth he had created.
Onassis was born in 1906 in Izmir on the shores of the Aegean Sea. (Full name: Aristotle Socrates Onassis.) ）
His parents were in the tobacco business and were very successful. This allowed Onassis to receive a good education from an early age.
In 1922, at the age of 16, Onassis was preparing to go to University in Germany, but Izmir was occupied by the Turks, and he and his parents were thrown into prison.
Onassis was released because of his young age. He ran home, collected all the family's savings, and released the family from prison on bail. After being released from prison, the family fled to Greece.
In order to make a living, he crossed the ocean and ran to the American continent. In Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, I found a job as a welder.
The welder was a piece-payer, and he worked 16 hours a day, even all night, so desperately for a while, Onassis accumulated his first money.
With the funds in hand, he began to plot his own business. What is the business? Then start with tobacco, familiar.
In Argentina at that time, tobacco was still very popular, and there were many people who smoked. But the South American tobacco industry is monopolized by a few big guys and it is difficult to break into.
But after careful study, Onassis found that tobacco in South America and Argentina was strong in taste and not as soft as Greek tobacco.
But on the Argentine market, there are very few Greek cigarettes. Many local Greeks are entrusted to buy cigarettes from Greece.
Onassis was a keen eye, he saw a business opportunity in it, so he invested all his money and specialized in Greek cigarettes.
He first set up a workshop at home and made handmade cigarettes. But there are no sales. So he thought of a way, and he found that there was a TV show that was very popular, and the resident guest was a famous singer.
He thought of sending the singers a lot of their own cigarettes, on the condition that they were smoked on the show. Soon, smoking this Greek cigarette became fashionable in the local area.
So Onassis managed to borrow money to buy a cigarette machine and expand production. Specializes in the production of Greek cigarettes. In less than two years, he had earned nearly 1 million pesos.
Onassis knew that small workshops could not make a lot of money, and he had greater ambitions, so he began to dabble in the tobacco trade and tobacco transportation.
Lack of funds, he could only start with the lease, rent a steamship, and start sea shipping. Four years later, he made a profit of $300,000 and rose to prominence among the greek diaspora.
In 1930, at the age of 24, Onassis had become the largest importer of Greek products, with millions of assets.
Just when his business path was frank and full of ambition, the global economic crisis broke out, and world trade was almost paralyzed, and the first to be affected was maritime trade. The volume of sea transport has shrunk dramatically, and a large number of giant ships have been moored on the seashore and completely idle.
However, Onassis did not sit still, but instead quickly seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
He learned that a Canadian company was on the verge of bankruptcy, and that the cargo ships bought for $2 million 10 years ago were now selling for only $20,000 each, and that's six. In this way, no one still cares.
Onassis rushed to Canada overnight and bought all 6 old ships. He firmly believes that the crisis will always pass and that cargo ships will be of great use. But at the time, most people couldn't see through it, and thought he was looking for his own death.
Due to the impact of the economic crisis, soon, The Outbreak of World War II, a large number of military supplies and daily necessities need to be transported, onassis, who owns ships, made a fierce payment.
Soon, Onassis became famous and became a veritable shipowner.
After the end of World War II, countries began to revive and rebuild, and Onassis, with a keen perspective, found another business opportunity, that is, the human demand for oil energy.
But at the time, most shipowners were on the sidelines, and Onassis took the lead and invested heavily in the construction of oil tankers to seize the opportunity for future oil competition.
After great development, in 1975, Onassis
It already has the world's largest private merchant fleet. His fleet consists of 45 tankers, 15 of which are supertankers of more than 200,000 tons.
He himself became a veritable "Greek ship king".
In March 1975, billionaire Onassis died in a hospital in Paris, ending his legendary life.
【Reading with stars】
Onassis used keen insight and extraordinary audacity to possess great wealth.
Later, he successfully entered the European high society through wealth, which can be described as "fame and fortune".
Perhaps for some, money is a social entry ticket and a symbol of upbringing.
However, money and upbringing are not necessarily proportional.
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