“Women, you have all this power, I’m telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you’ll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.”
— Gene Simmons
“Before I ever knew what the word Entrepeneur was, I realized in America and in the Western part of the world in general, you are given the opportunity to be whatever you want to be. And that is all anyone should ever expect from the Capitalist system. The rest is up to you.It’s up to you to educate yourself.It’s up to you to learn speaking skills and people skills.It’s up to you to try (and usually fail, but to try again) all sorts of ventures.The rest is a combination of hard work, being at the right place …at the right time…with the right thing…oh yes…and more (never ending) hard work.”
— Gene Simmons
“I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don’t travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.”
– Gene Simmons
“The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We’re all passing through the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.”
– Gene Simmons
“Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.”
– Gene Simmons
“The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.”
– Gene Simmons
“It’s in the history books, the Holocaust. It’s just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.”
– Gene Simmons
“I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.”
– Gene Simmons