Biography
Luke Johnson is Chairman of Channel 4 Television and Risk Capital Partners. For eight years he wrote a weekly column on business in The Sunday Telegraph. He was Chairman of Pizza Express during the 1990s and is currently an owner and Chairman of Giraffe restaurants and Patisserie Valerie. He has also owned companies in recruitment, dentistry and retailing. He graduated from Oxford and worked as a stockbroking analyst covering the media sector in the 1980s. He lives in London and is married with two children.
Book Reviews
The Book of Investing Wisdom
This book includes incisive and revealing pieces by pioneers such as Andrew Carnegie, the steel baron, and Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor and entrepreneur, as well as Sam Walton'
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The Magic of Thinking Big
Successful people study people, says Schwartz. 'Go deep into your study of people, and you'll discover unsuccessful people suffer a mind-deadening thought disease. We call this dis
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Return to Go
The paperback edition I have was published by Future in 1978. I fear the book may now be out of print, but no doubt one of the internet services could obtain a copy. In the late '6
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The Funny Money Game
Tobias gives a truly hilarious, first-hand account of what it is like to be part of a small enterprise that got propelled into the stratosphere during a very optimistic time.
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Venture Capital Investing
The purpose of this book from the entrepreneur's perspective is that it describes what financial backers look for in new projects and how to raise funding. The compelling thing abo
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How to Lose $100,000,000 and Other Valuable Advice
The book is in the form of a diary of his commercial career, and consists of a series of mistakes he made from the 1920's until he retired in the 1970's. Each short chapter ends wi
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The Maverick
The Maverick
The Maverick