Odyssey of Gold

Aaron A. Gold once described his Oxford First Corporation as a company "started by nobody, with nothing."Yet from this unpromising beginning, he built a small-loan business in North Philadelphia into a $100 million company and gained a national reputation for sagacity in consumer finance.In Odyssey of Gold, completed shortly before his death in 1993, Gold explains how he did it. His story makes wonderful reading both as a how-to-succeed business book and as one man's often hilarious encounters with the good, the bad, and the weird in modern life.