Talk:Luke Johnson
can't help feeling i'm missing something on old luke here — he must be on something abit more sinister by now.
didn't see the point of the phil kelly note really when the link was there - I think you've got to make the assumption people go to the link and have a quick look – perhaps they don't. But quite a good one this and i think a lot of C4 people might be interested.
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Traders and analysts alike were left speechless as Ofcom, the 'regulator' of the media, hailed the entrepreneur's "passion for public service broadcasting". Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
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Johnson is thought to have fallen out with his former executives at PizzaExpress including Hugh Osmond, his friend from university and the two goad and taunt each other to this day.[1]
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- "Frequently valuations and price movements have been impossible to justify on any sane basis.... As John Maynard Keynes once remarked: "Money is one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological properties which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease."
Ultimately people like Johnson are watched for what they do rather than what they say — such as when he picked up 750,000 shares in insurance group LIMIT which has been the subject of take-over speculation. [2]
