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Energy & Enthusiasm


It would be wrong to describe Mould as sprightly as that suggests that he is energetic for his age. In truth, he would be considered energetic and enthusiastic at any age. Not bad for a man with a platinum stent in his chest, courtesy of heart surgery back in 1998. He says that his energy stems from a realisation at a very early age about the value of money and the numerous ways it can be obtained. “When I was growing up, it was clear that there were only three real ways of making money. You could inherit it, steal it or earn it through sheer hard graft,” he says. “My parents were fruiterers operating out of Borough Market in London so I wasn’t going to inherit it, and I wasn’t a thief. Hard graft was my only option.”


Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Enoch Powell. Dyslexic and suffering from what he describes as an inability to remember words and letters that makes reading and writing problematic, he is blessed with a business mind that is as sharp as his suits. And although he could easily be described as a workaholic – he still works full time at the age of 72 – it is clear that any amount of work he puts into his demolition, recycling and property business has the wellbeing of his family at its core.


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That hard graft began as a truck driver for his father and evolved into becoming a self- employed muckshift driver. Considering that he now runs one of the most comprehensive demolition equipment fleets in the UK and privately owns a car collection valued in the millions, it is hard to reconcile his first commercial vehicle purchase. “I was very naive and I bought an old coke lorry because I thought it would be able to haul a lot of muck,” he recalls. “But it was useless, and the weight of the muck barrelled the sides of the body. And the next truck I bought really wasn’t much better either.”


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