Stop renting stocks. Start owning businesses.
Out now in paperback, ebook and audiobook.
Endorsed by Robert Vinall, Gautam Baid, Eugene Ng, Bogumil Baranowski, Clay Finck and Chin Hui Leong.
Order The Lunch Break Investor from your preferred retailer. Takes two minutes. The book is out August 18.
Enter your order number and the financial statements course is yours today, free.
A complete system for investing alongside a full-time career, in an hour a day.
Tell durable compounders from value traps using simple, repeatable checks.
The Lunch Break Valuation, built to run in your spare time, not your full day.
Hold 15 to 25 businesses you understand, not a scattered basket you don't.
The behavioural traps that quietly wreck returns, and how to sidestep them.
Pre-order today and I’ll give you a complete module from my $1,200 investing bootcamp. Three short lessons, about two hours, and you’ll read a company’s numbers like an owner. The skill most retail investors skip and later regret.
Lesson 1: Read an income statement and spot what actually drives profit
Lesson 2: Decode a balance sheet to judge financial health and risk
Lesson 3: Follow the cash flow statement to see if profits are real
“For anyone investing alongside a day job, this book shows you how to invest to live, not the other way around.”
Co-Founder and Head of Investing, The Smart Investor
“Thomas is a clear thinker and a contrarian investor. He outlines how investors can apply his principles to build wealth patiently for the long term.”
Fund Manager, RV Capital
“A clear, practical framework for building lasting wealth through patient ownership of quality businesses. The book every busy professional investing in the stock market should have on their shelf.”
Author of The Joys of Compounding
“The principles in this book capture what actually works, and Thomas makes them accessible to anyone building wealth alongside a full-time career.”
The Investor’s Podcast Network
“He writes like a friend who has already walked the road and wants to save you from the wrong turns. If you want to stop trading and start owning great businesses, this is the book that will show you how.”
Founder of Vision Capital Fund and author of Vision Investing
“Thomas Chua’s own story, from a childhood defined by financial hardship to teaching ordinary people to think and invest like owners, is proof that steady, patient ownership beats frantic activity every time. This is the book I’ll be recommending to anyone curious to learn how to build real wealth without turning investing into a second job.”
Founder of Blue Infinitas Capital and host of Talking Billions
A janitor who never earned more than $8 an hour built an $8 million portfolio. A tax auditor turned $5,000 into $22 million. No finance degrees. No Bloomberg terminals. They owned great businesses and got out of the way. Chapter 1 tells their story. The rest teaches you to do the same:
1. The Millionaires Nobody Knew
2. The Heart of Steady Compounding
3. Economic Moats
4. The Three Drivers of Capital Appreciation
5. It’s Always About Management
6. Finding Your First Steady Compounders
7. Valuation
8. Buying Strategies
9. Selling Strategies
10. Building a Winning Portfolio
11. Beyond The Numbers
Including the six economic moats, the Crayon Test, and the three rules that tell you when to sell.
I grew up poor in Singapore. As a teenager, I walked into a library and read every investing book I could find. Nobody around me invested, so I taught myself, with real money and real mistakes. At 31, I reached financial independence using the exact approach in this book.
→ 100,000+ investors follow my work at Steady Compounding
→ Featured on national television and radio, and in the financial press
This book is everything I wish I’d known when I started.
It’s out now. Paperback ships from your retailer within days, or walk into a bookstore. Ebook and audiobook are instant.
Paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
Yes. The pre-order button routes you to a retailer for your region, and the bonus claim works worldwide.
No. The blog gives you ideas. The book is the complete system in one place, the six moats, the Lunch Break Valuation, the Crayon Test, and the three selling rules, in the order you’d actually use them.
Head to steadycompounding.com/book-bonus with your order number. If you ordered before the book went on sale in your store, the course is yours.
Out now in paperback, ebook and audiobook.
In Singapore? Book talk at Kinokuniya Takashimaya, Sat 22 Aug, 4pm, with He Ruiming.
