Gene Simmons Quotes - Page 2

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• Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

  Gene Simmons

  Trying, Together, Conquer

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• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Beautiful, People

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• If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.

  Gene Simmons

  Thinking, Lucky, Lines

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Education, especially business education will only give you tools. What you do with these tools is all that matters. Life and business isn’t paint by numbers. You have to think for yourself. You have to invent yourself. You have an inferred fiduciary mandate to yourself, and that means, it’s your responsibility to learn people skills, and language skills, in order to increase your chances of success. You also have to be at the right place, at the right time, with the right thing. Mostly and invariably, the real product you’re going to be selling is….you.

  Gene Simmons

  Real, Mean, Responsibility

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• Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

  Gene Simmons

  Needs, Music Is, Wells

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• It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody says, no matter what the popular vibe is.

  Gene Simmons

  Self, Crowds, Matter

  Source: www.news-leader.com

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• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Successful, Class, Ikea

  "Gene Simmons: Rock 'n' Roll Entrepreneur". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.bloomberg.com. September 5, 2008.

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• 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

  Legs, Want, Arms

  "Celebrating 30 Years Of 'Fresh Air' As A Daily NPR Program". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 11, 2017.

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• A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.

  Gene Simmons

  Communication, Forget, Good Marriage

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• 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

  Being Happy, Selfish, People

  "This much I know" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2004.

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• Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.

  Gene Simmons

  Yesterday, Expectations, Perception

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• Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.

  Gene Simmons

  Pain, Rainy Day, Smell

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• Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

  Gene Simmons

  Guitar, Trying, Want

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned". Interview with Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• 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.

  Gene Simmons

  Strong, Self Esteem, Mean

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2009.

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• If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, People, Judging

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• I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, Rocks, Firefighter

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

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Successful, Discipline

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• Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, War, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Successful, Men

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• Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

  Gene Simmons

  Kissing, July, Fireworks

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned" by Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. July 2002.

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• I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs.

  Gene Simmons

  Hard Work, Drug, Use

  "Gene Simmons: ‘I Don’t Like Handlers’". Sleaze Roxx Interview, sleazeroxx.com. June 6, 2004.

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• First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.

  Gene Simmons

  Beautiful, Girl, Jumping

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2002.

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• The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

  Gene Simmons

  Roots, Evil, Enough

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

  Gene Simmons

  Ideas, Masters, Torture

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• Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

  Gene Simmons

  Girl, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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