The Lunch Break Investor: Identify winning stocks, build your wealth, and reclaim your time
About this ebook
Most of what passes for investing is actually speculation – buying on excitement, selling on fear, and getting nowhere.
This book shows you how to shift from speculator to owner.
Ronald Read was a janitor who never earned more than $8 an hour. He built a portfolio worth $8 million. Anne Scheiber was a tax auditor who started at 51 with $5,000 and turned it into $22 million. No finance degrees. No Bloomberg terminals. They owned great businesses and left them to compound.
The Lunch Break Investor teaches you to do the same – in roughly one hour a day.
Inside, you'll learn:
Economic moats: the six types that determine whether a business will compound your wealth for decadesThe Lunch Break Valuation: a six-step method for working out what a business is worth, so you'll never overpay for stocks againThe Crayon Test: how to know whether you understand a business well enough to actually hit the buy buttonWhen to sell: and why the answer is almost never (unless one of these three rules is broken)The one-hour portfolio: how to build and manage 15 to 25 businesses without it taking over your lifeThe owner's mindset: the single shift that separates people who build wealth from people who trade it away
Thomas Chua grew up in poverty in Singapore. As a teenager, he walked into a library and read every book on investing he could get his hands on. He taught himself through years of real decisions with real money. Having achieved financial independence at 31, Thomas now invests full-time and publishes his market insights at SteadyCompounding, where he has built a community of over 100,000 investors.
Whether you're just starting your investment journey or looking to grow your existing portfolio, Thomas shows you a clear, accessible path to finding great companies and investing in them to build real, lasting wealth.
'For anyone investing alongside a day job' – Chin Hui Leong, Co-Founder and Head of Investing, The Smart Investor
'Thomas Chua is a clear thinker and a contrarian investor' – Robert Vinall, Fund Manager, RV Capital
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About the author
Thomas Chua is an investor and author dedicated to empowering individuals to achieve financial freedom. He has a business degree from the National University of Singapore—though investing is something he has taught himself, through reading books and years of real decisions with real money.
Thomas grew up in poverty in Singapore. As a teenager, he walked into a library and read every book on investing he could get his hands on, including the story of Warren Buffett, who'd become one of the richest people in the world by buying great businesses and holding them for decades.
Having achieved financial independence at 31, Thomas is passionate about sharing his hard-won lessons and time-tested strategies with others. He has been featured in national media and speaks on government financial education programmes. He writes about long-term investing on his website SteadyCompounding, which has a community of over 100,000 investors.
His first book, The Lunch Break Investor, is everything he wishes he'd known when he first started out.
