Contents -- Foreword by Stephen Vines -- Foreword by Jake van der Kamp -- Preface -- Introduction -- In My Blood -- Family Business -- First Interest in Stocks -- Stock Broking in Singapore -- Selling Juice in Hong Kong -- In and Out from the Financial Field -- Hong Kong and the Global Investment Climate -- Principle 1 Invest, Cash is Not King -- Why Not Become a Millionaire? -- Money Tends to Evaporate -- Share Prices Must Rise -- Short-Term Deflation, Long-Term Inflation -- Why I Like Inflation -- Interest Rates Ignite Inflation -- Rising Interest Rates Good for Stocks -- Do Not Desert Equities -- Principle 2 Be Your Own Fund Manager -- The Evolution of the Fund Management Industry -- Mutual Disregard -- Hedge Funds -- Stocks, Bonds and Commodities -- The Best Fund Manager of All -- Principle 3 Learn the Basics -- Valuing a Company -- Price-Earnings Ratios and Earnings Yields -- A Profitable Lesson -- Favourite Sector -- Measuring the Assets -- Should an Investor Rely on Asset Values in Selecting His Shares? -- Valuing Property Shares -- Correlation between Prospects and Share Prices -- Principle 4 Looking for Dividend Income -- Looking for Dividend Income -- Buying Shares Solely for Capital Gain is Like Going to Casinos -- Cash in the Pocket -- A Share Portfolio is Like a Garden -- Principle 5 Focus on Growth -- Grow at a Steady Rate -- Spotting Growth Shares -- The Growing Market -- Companies with Sustainable Growth -- China and the World Market -- Principle 6 Buy and Keep -- Time Value of Money -- Patience is What We Need -- Shares to Hold Long-Term -- Buying Shares on the Way Down -- Selling the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg -- HSBC and My Principles -- The Risk of Switching -- Avoid One-Night Stands -- Principle 7 Beware of the Quick Profits of IPO -- The Get-Rich Quick Mentality -- When an IPO is Too Hot -- My Thoughts on Chinese IPOs.

I'll Pass on Google's Offering -- Principle 8 Gamble to Win -- Gambling is a Science -- Betting on Horses is Like Picking Shares -- Getting the Odds in Your Favour -- The Dangers of Day-Trading -- My Experience with Warrants -- A Hunch about Warrants -- A Bet on Futures and Currencies -- Principle 9 Enjoy the Ride with the Market -- The Market Will Crash But Won't Collapse -- When the Market Can Avalanche -- How to Play the Market -- When One Waits for Disaster -- Principle 10 Buy Property for Living, Not for Investing -- The Time to Buy a Home -- The Ups and Downs of the Property Market -- The Cost of Investing in Property -- To Leverage or Not to Leverage -- The Property Speculators -- Index.