Born in a caravan on the side of the road, Alfie Best becomes the richest Gypsy in the world, tackling the biggest chall | dG1fcTdNMUhqbl9Gb1k
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 My Alfie was a little boy.
00:04 So he come to me, he said, Mum, that man
00:07 got a cracking car over there, a big Rolls Royce.
00:10 I said, you know what?
00:11 You keep saving your money, I said,
00:13 you'll have a Rolls Royce one day.
00:14 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:17 How can people keep affording everything
00:19 when it just keeps rising and rising and rising?
00:21 I just think it's horrific.
00:23 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:27 I genuinely believe that it is the solution
00:31 to affordable housing, not could be, not would be,
00:34 is the solution to affordable housing.
00:36 I said to my mum, I said, I think it's a great thing.
00:38 There's a community.
00:39 No stamp duty, no land registry fee.
00:41 No stamp duty.
00:42 No.
00:43 What we're providing is the answer.
00:45 The perception of gypsy is liars, tramps, and thieves.
00:49 We just got abused all the time for being who we was.
00:53 For the gypsy culture, it's wonderful, really.
00:55 I'm not the smartest man in the book.
00:57 If anything, I'm on the last page.
00:58 But I'm on the first page when it comes to work ethic.
01:01 I don't know how the hell he did it.
01:02 It's a complete enigma.
01:03 He's verging on, I think, being a genius.
01:06 The winner in this category of Entrepreneur of the Year
01:08 is Alfie Best.
01:11 I'm not like anybody that you'll ever meet,
01:13 only for one reason, not because I'm special,
01:15 not because I'm important.
01:17 Actually, because I'm a bit of a nobody.
01:19 Always making money from a young age.
01:21 I think he's terrified of not having anything again.
01:24 It turned me from a millionaire to bankrupt.
01:28 I hadn't the experience to deal with a recession.
01:31 To your left, please, Alfie.
01:33 My God, I should have been a model.
01:34 I don't know if it's a dream or what,
01:47 but I'm really, really proud that it's my son that's done it.
01:52 (whooshing)