Nicky Oppenheimer quotes:

It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible.

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.

May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?

One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.

I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.

You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.

The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.

We're seeing diamonds coming back into favor.

We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.

Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country the UK, or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.

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

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.