Gene Simmons Quotes

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

There's nothing inherently or patently wrong with anybody who does well, works hard, earns a living, betters themselves. I'm not against any of these things. It's about how you make that money, and then what you do with it.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the 'best' in your chosen field, whatever it is.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

I don't have to justify myself. I work a lot and I earn a lot.

I was brought up poor, but I've earned every cent in my bank account.

I don't think it changes who you are inside. But when you have a lot of money, it makes a lot of things easier. That's why everyone wants to be successful.

When I started, all I wanted to do was make $3,000 per month. And because it wasn't about the money for me, I know that's why things worked out.