243 Quotes by Gene Simmons

I promised myself that I would educate myself, and that I would never stop educating myself. It was my responsibility to keep learning. I would spend hours at the library on the weekends and read everything I could get my hands on. Books on dinosaurs. Books on history. I almost read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica. And all for free. The reason I’m telling all of you this is that I want you to take this point to heart and make you understand that it’s your responsibility to educate yourself.

It’s better to be an octopus than a fish. If an octopus loses a tentacle to a predator, the octopus will survive with seven tentacles left for itself.

I would recommend you watch the movie ‘Jobs’ starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don’t have time to read Jobs’s biography.

Why is it that most of the folks I know think “personal growth” is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

So much of our popular mythology focuses on the negative aspects of power that we forget that gaining power is, perhaps, the only way to enable ourselves to make a difference in our lives and in the lives of others.

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

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.

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

We don’t know whether or not it’s the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.