Nicky Oppenheimer Quotes

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one hottest car on the block.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

These days, the media is defining what cultural capital is, and it's easily learned. If you have money, anything can be bought. We see this in China and Russia with what I call the "Bling Dynasty and New Oligarchy" in Generation Wealth. As people got rich and everybody started buying Louis Vuitton bags, it became clear that to distinguish yourself you had to have more than an expensive bag. People began to want the things that money is not supposed to be able to buy - history, tradition, education, and culture.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.

If we give something value, it becomes valuable.

Yes, I love good clothes, good shoes, but I earned it.

Real fashion is something you don't need - it's something you want.

People like their handbag more than their sofa, and I hate it.

Silicon Valley's definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage.

It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.

Most companies are out to make money. They aren't worried about anything except whether they can buy their new BMW next month.

One of my first big paychecks, I used it to buy a Rolex. I bought a used 1968 vintage Rolex. I was too cheap to buy a new one.

I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes.

If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.

People watch me because I am a footballer, not because I wear a nice watch.

When you're young, luxury often means being able to buy something you really want - a high end bag or a specific car.

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

I don't know what the hell the future brings. If I did, I would play the lotto and win the mega millions and buy toy cars, real muscle cars, sneakers, and art.

I think the saying that diamonds are a girl's best friend can't be truer. Which girl doesn't love diamonds?

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.