Nicky Oppenheimer Quotes

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.

The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.

Value is not determined by those who set the price. Value is determined by those who choose to pay it.

Gold is special, and what makes it special is thousands of years of people wanting it..

If we give something value, it becomes valuable.

For me, three vacations is more value-for-money than a mandap with diamonds on it.

If you're going to charge someone for something, you have to show them value for it.

So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.

I think exclusivity is important in life. When you look at a hot pair of Jordans, not everybody got them - it's a limited run. You look at guitars. When Gibson made the robot guitar, it was a limited run.

We tend to not value anything that we get for free.

A shirt's not just a shirt. It's the experience of what goes into that shirt.

The Ferrari is exactly the same in the human context as the peacock's tail is on the peacock.

It is really tough now to buy a player - everyone is asking millions and millions and millions.

Actually, diamonds are a very common stone. I prefer emeralds.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

Give the people what they think they want.

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me.