Quotes from Gene Simmons

Ladies, first and foremost: you're on your own. No more rules neatly laid out for you to follow. You have to make up YOUR OWN rules.

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.

If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.