Gene Simmons

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

— Gene Simmons

You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go…

— Gene Simmons

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

— Gene Simmons

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

“Fuck confidence, fuck everything. You must stick your neck out there. There's no choice.”

— Gene Simmons

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the…

— Gene Simmons

I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look…

— Gene Simmons

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see…

— Gene Simmons

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

— Gene Simmons

I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.

— Gene Simmons

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler…

— Gene Simmons

If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs,

— Gene Simmons

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

— Gene Simmons

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

— Gene Simmons

I'm aware, as a sane person, that I'm not the best-looking guy in the world. I'm aware of it. But when I…

— Gene Simmons

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

— Gene Simmons

There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I…

— Gene Simmons

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered,

— Gene Simmons

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

— Gene Simmons

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more…

— Gene Simmons