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Solid Gold: My Autobiography: The Ultimate Rags to Riches Tale
David Gold is a remarkable man with an even more improbable story.
Pure Gold is one of the most amazing rags to riches stories ever told because this one begins on the very bottom rung of the ladder and finishes at the very top for this self-made multi-millionaire.
The beguiling tale starts with genuinely abject poverty and extreme ill health in the back streets of the East End of London in the austerity of the war years, and concludes with an extensive business empire, private helicopters and jets, and a magnificent mansion in the heart of the Surrey countryside.
Most importantly to Gold, he also won a significant personal battle over his despised father.
The entrepreneurial businessman is now the charismatic chairman of West Ham United Football Club. He owns Gold Group International, one of the most profitable private businesses in the United Kingdom. It is the parent company of retailer Ann Summers, lingerie chain Knickerbox, Gold Aviation. In May 2005 he bought the oldest surviving FA Cup trophy for almost half a million pounds at auction to prevent it going to Germany.
Pure Gold is one of the most amazing rags to riches stories ever told because this one begins on the very bottom rung of the ladder and finishes at the very top for this self-made multi-millionaire.
The beguiling tale starts with genuinely abject poverty and extreme ill health in the back streets of the East End of London in the austerity of the war years, and concludes with an extensive business empire, private helicopters and jets, and a magnificent mansion in the heart of the Surrey countryside.
Most importantly to Gold, he also won a significant personal battle over his despised father.
The entrepreneurial businessman is now the charismatic chairman of West Ham United Football Club. He owns Gold Group International, one of the most profitable private businesses in the United Kingdom. It is the parent company of retailer Ann Summers, lingerie chain Knickerbox, Gold Aviation. In May 2005 he bought the oldest surviving FA Cup trophy for almost half a million pounds at auction to prevent it going to Germany.
504 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 15, 2006
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April 16, 2023
An interesting autobiography, David is very honest throughout and opinionated, not sitting on the fence. David is charmingly eccentric in his own way. Really pleased to have met the man and I have a high opinion of him even more following this read.
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