From the desk of Jing Yan

Five Generations

How families keep money across five generations — and how they lose it.
The lessons my father gave me at the tea table, when I was twenty and thought I knew everything.

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What's Inside

Seven lessons. One evening.

Thirty-two pages. Read slowly, with a pot of tea. Each chapter written the way my father would have explained it to me — without raising his voice, and without finishing the sentence for me.

I
The Tea
Why my father never explained money to me. And what he did instead.
II
The Quiet Hand
The wealthiest families I know are also the most invisible. There is a reason.
III
The Five Refusals
The five things a man must learn to refuse before he is permitted to keep money.
IV
The Long View
The only investor patient enough to make a family wealthy is time.
V
The Empty Bowl
Why my family treats debt as the deepest shame — and how to escape it.
VI
The Name
What outlasts you. Why three out of four families lose it in three generations.
VII
The Letter
What to leave when the line continues without you.

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"Three out of four families lose what they have built
within three generations. The fourth family knows why."

— Jing Yan

The Author

Jing Yan

Fifth generation · Singapore · Custodian of a family business his great-great-grandfather founded in 1881

I am not an economist. I am not an investor. I am the fifth man in my line to be handed a small trading firm and asked, gently, not to lose it. The first four did not. I have spent forty years trying to be worthy of them.

I have written this for the man who suspects, correctly, that the loudest voices about money are also the most short-lived. For the man who would like his grandchildren to inherit something more than a story about how clever he was for one decade.

Why $27

Less than a small pot of good tea.

·One evening to read. A lifetime to apply.
·$67 first edition — the first 500 readers only.
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·If you read it and it is not worth twice what you paid — write to me. I shall return your money without argument.

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