Gene Simmons
It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and they would give you advances. In other words, they gave you the air to breathe to find yourself and spend the time to learn how to run.Collection: Running
You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.Collection: The End Of The Day
The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.Collection: Inspirational
Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.Collection: Inspirational
After 9/11, people all of a sudden became patriotic and showed the colors. Why did it take something bad to happen? It means something. People have died for it, and continue to do so.Collection: Mean
I want to be dictator.Collection: Want
Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.Collection: Heart
Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.Collection: People
I voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.Collection: President
I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.Collection: Thinking
Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.Collection: Kings
Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.Collection: Mind
Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.Collection: Tree
My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.Collection: Country
The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."Collection: Important
Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Real
Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.Collection: Trying
If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Self
If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.Collection: Legs
A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.Collection: Communication
Our perception of yesterday is the foundation for our expectations of tomorrow.Collection: Yesterday
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.Collection: Guitar
If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.Collection: Inspirational
Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Beautiful
If you choose to become a smoker, you are an idiot, and you may lack the discipline and intelligence to be a successful entrepreneur.Collection: Inspirational
I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs.Collection: Hard Work
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 grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.Collection: Mother