In the 1980s I came upon the idea of bringing my customers to a massage parlor to while away an hour or two while their gold was being tested.
Let me correct myself - I wrote that I don't have any regrets; actually I have only one regret. It's not a regret of something I did or didn't do in my life.
For any of my readers who don't know, poor souls afflicted with kleptocodia [yes, I made the word up] suffer from an obsessive impulse to download software they do not need nor will ever use.
Firing employees is never easy even if they are embezzling, stealing, or being violent or abusive toward your employees or customers. Sometimes, even if it seems you should fire someone, it may not be the wise business decision. Let me explain:
The year was 1977 and my father had to get his toe amputated due to complications from his diabetes, so he asked my wife and me to help him run his costume jewelry business until he was better. He never got better and we ended up running the business until the present day, although now it is all fine gold and diamonds.
I was delighted that 170 Diggers all met their just fate at the same time yet disappointed that anyone would bother burying Liberal Digg users with honours; after all, the majority of Diggers are still in denial that a Muslim threat exists, that it's just a power-grabbing ploy by George Bush who will probably remain President for the rest of his life.
One blustery Spring Day in 1982 I had to slow down to a slog. Any other man walking slower would have been stopped dead in his tracks at the sight I am about to describe.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." Well, I started to hot glue everything onto hair combs.
What the Jordan needs to do, is bring in Israelis to show them how to do business in the modern world. The Jordan has about the same population as Israel but is 5 to 6 times larger in area. They would do well to associate with a country that has more entrepreneurs per capita than any other country in the world.
Back in 1980 I was the largest gold scrap dealer in New York. I bought millions of dollars every month of gold and silver, coins, currency, pearls, scrap jewelry, stamps, collectibles, antiques, ivory, and so on. Customers would bring in old gold to sell at any one of more than a dozen retail outlets in the city. I also had a number of stores in New Jersey.
