OUT AUGUST 18
Build lasting wealth in an hour a day.
Stop renting stocks. Start owning businesses.
Pre-order now and get the $300 financial statements course free.
Endorsed by Robert Vinall, Gautam Baid, Eugene Ng, Clay Finck and Chin Hui Leong.
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Order The Lunch Break Investor from your preferred retailer. Takes two minutes. The book ships August 18.
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What you'll learn
A complete system for investing alongside a full-time career, in an hour a day.
Spot quality businesses
Tell durable compounders from value traps using simple, repeatable checks.
Value a stock in six steps
The Lunch Break Valuation, built to run in your spare time, not your full day.
Build a focused portfolio
Hold 15 to 25 businesses you understand, not a scattered basket you don't.
Avoid the costly mistakes
The behavioural traps that quietly wreck returns, and how to sidestep them.
FREE PRE-ORDER BONUS
Learn to read financial statements like an owner
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
A $300 value, free with every pre-order.
Praise for The Lunch Break Investor
“For anyone investing alongside a day job, this book shows you how to invest to live, not the other way around.”
Chin Hui Leong
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.”
Robert Vinall
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.”
Gautam Baid
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.”
Clay Finck
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.”
Eugene Ng
Founder of Vision Capital Fund and author of Vision Investing
Inside the book
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:
PART I: THE FOUNDATION
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
PART II: FINDING YOUR WINNERS
6. Finding Your First Steady Compounders
7. Valuation
PART III: THE MECHANICS
8. Buying Strategies
9. Selling Strategies
10. Building a Winning Portfolio
PART IV: THE LONG GAME
11. Beyond The Numbers
Including the six economic moats, the Crayon Test, and the three rules that tell you when to sell.
Hi, I'm Thomas.
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.
Questions, answered
The book releases August 18, 2026. Physical copies arrive on or around release day depending on your retailer. Ebook and audiobook unlock on release day. Your $300 bonus course arrives the moment you claim it.
Paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
Pre-order from any retailer, then submit your order number at steadycompounding.com/book-bonus. The course link comes back instantly.
Yes. Paperback, ebook, or audiobook, from any retailer, anywhere in the world.
Yes. The pre-order button routes you to a retailer for your region, and the bonus claim works worldwide.
Two reasons. You get the $300 course today instead of August. And early orders decide how seriously retailers and my publisher take the book, which decides how many people it reaches. If the book helps you, pre-ordering is the single best way to support it.
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.
Pre-order The Lunch Break Investor
The book releases August 18. The $300 financial statements course is yours today.
Pre-order from any retailer, then claim your bonus at steadycompounding.com/book-bonus.
