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The Lunch Break Investor

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'A clear, practical framework for building lasting wealth' – Gautam Baid
'For anyone investing alongside a day job' – Chin Hui Leong
'Thomas Chua is a clear thinker and a contrarian investor' – Robert Vinall

Most of what passes for investing is actually speculation—buying on excitement, selling on fear, and getting nowhere.

This audiobook 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 got out of the way.

The Lunch Break Investor teaches you to do the same—in roughly one hour a day.

You'll learn:

  • Economic moats: the six types that determine whether a business will compound your wealth for decades
  • The Lunch Break Valuation: a six-step method for working out what a business is worth, so you'll never overpay for stocks again
  • The Crayon Test: how to know whether you understand a business well enough to actually hit the buy button
  • When 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 life
  • The 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.

Critics Review

Thomas Chua 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
I've spent years studying the world's best investors. The principles in this book capture what actually works, and Thomas Chua makes them accessible to anyone building wealth alongside a full-time career.
Clay Finck, podcast host, We Study Billionaires by The Investor's Podcast Network
A clear, practical framework for building lasting wealth through patient ownership of quality businesses. Every busy professional investing in the stock market should have this book on their shelf.
Gautam Baid, author, The Joys of Compounding
For anyone investing alongside a day job, The Lunch Break Investor 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 Chua writes like a friend who has already walked the road and wants to save you from the wrong turns. Every chapter is packed with real experience and real examples. 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, Vision Investing
The Lunch Break Investor is refreshingly honest about what it actually takes to compound money – and refreshingly practical about how to do it. 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.
Bogumil Baranowski, Founder of Blue Infinitas Capital, podcast host, Talking Billions, author, Money, Life, Family
Author Thomas Chua
Narrator Adam Sims
Duration 8 hours and 35 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781804095027
Format Audiobook
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Genre Investment and securities, Personal finance, Private wealth management
Availability GB, IE, US

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