{"id":76492,"date":"2011-08-13T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/peter-stringfellow-my-greatest-mistake\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T06:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T23:03:09","slug":"peter-stringfellow-my-greatest-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/peter-stringfellow-my-greatest-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Stringfellow: my greatest mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA short spell in prison helped put nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow on the straight and narrowMy original mistake changed my life for the better. It was 1960 and I was 20 years old, just married and recently promoted to door-to-door sales manager for a Sheffield company. I was flash. I bought a suit and even tried to grow a moustache.I had to go to warehouses to sign out stock for us to sell. At the time, we were selling carpets for \u00a310, but at the end of one week I saw that I had 10 carpets left over, which I hadn’t signed out. Any normal law-fearing person would’ve returned them, but I thought “What can I make out of this?”. I sold them on for \u00a35 each. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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