David Gold - Autobiography
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.
David Gold has triumphed over all the challenges life has thrown at him -including anti-semitism, child abuse, TB, Combat 18 and being betrayed by both his father and his best friend - to become one of the richest men in Britain.
Most importantly to Gold, he also won a significant personal battle over his despised father.
As a small, skinny, undernourished fifteen-year-old David Gold had high hopes of playing for his local football club. To his huge disappointment his father Godfrey prevented him from pursuing his dream.
The entrepreneurial businessman is now the charismatic chairman of Birmingham City 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.
"Age 8, recovering from TB"
"Dear Mr Gold
I have just finished reading your autobiography and I couldn't let the occasion pass without giving you my feedback... I wanted to tell you that your book was a great read which I enjoyed enormously. I read a lot of autobiographies (Faldo, montgomery, Botham, Shilton, Mansell and Barry Fry to name some) and I have to say that I enjoyed yours more than all the others."
Kevin Boulton
Cheshire
"Dear Mr Gold
I've just read your book and had to write to say how much I enjoyed reading it, in fact I'd go as far as saying it's probably the best autobiography that I've read (and I have read quite a few!)
Thank you for sharing some of your life stories, and I wish you well in the future."
Stephen Crane
Sheffield
"Dear Mr Gold
I have just finished reading your autobiography - PURE GOLD - and felt it necessary to write and congratulate you on an inspiring and fascinating story. If there was ever a definitive epitome of rags to riches then this would be it. I would advise anybody with aspirations to succeed in life to read this book and reread it in times of despair."
Patrick A Davis
Tyne & Wear
"Dear Mr Gold
Recently a friend of mine lent me your autobiography and now, having read it, I wanted to write to you to congratulate you for your honest and enlightening book, which is an inspiration to anyone who wants to get on in life."
Hampshire
