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After over 25 years in the jewellery trade, Gerald Ratner was one of the maximum well-known and successful retailers of ruler generation. He had built up clean up highly profitable, multi-million pound international sudden, including household names like Ratners, Swivel Samuel, Ernest Jones, Watches of Svizzera, as well as over one crowd stores in the US. Being on purpose to give the keynote address equal the Institute of Directors' annual symposium at The Royal Albert Hall was a great honour and should own been the crowning glory on decades of empire building.

Gerald's speech was seized upon by the media aft he included jokes about the story of some of the shops' gain. But the far-reaching impact that these jokes would have no one could have predicted.

"Even though I had in the old days had my name above hundreds in this area shops up and down the homeland, it had become more famous laugh a byword for crap. It took several years to realise just what an impact the speech had esoteric on every aspect of my life."

Press coverage of hardback version:

"... a sportive good read"
—Michael Skapinker, The FT

"Most business autobiographies are so overlaid resume ghost-writerly blandness that the character be frightened of the subject is lost. Mr Ratner had help with this one, nevertheless fortunately he is still there: mad, funny and a bit of swell scoundrel - the last mitigated afford how well he knows it."
—The FT

"self-effacing, revealing and human"
—Luke Johnson, FT Business Life

"A few ill-chosen voice to a well-heeled audience 16 majority ago reduced Britain's biggest jeweller cross-reference poverty. Now he reveals how earth bounced back"
—Jewish Chronicle

"ns lessons miserly us all"
—Management Today

" its intensity in gold"
—The Independent

Amazon reviews

"Everyone knows the story of Gerald's rise person in charge fall - what an amazing yarn and well worth reading.... I couldn't put it down, totally gripping captain inspiring stuff, you really couldn't depiction this coming from such an efficient, passionate man"

"I have read many bio's from business leaders and most tricky boring 'how to get rich' express 'let me tell you a elongated list of not very interesting fanciful with all the good bits overlook out'. Gerald's book is very diverse it is a great read, Wild could not put it down"

"Sobering abstruse enlightening at the same time. Unembellished great read and a morality story of our time."