Length2h 52m
About this audiobook
Leaving your children money is easy. Leaving them a family capable of surviving it is the work of a lifetime.
Almost every fortune dies within three generations — not because the heirs go bad, but because the discipline that built the money never travels with it. You can wire assets in an instant. You cannot wire judgment.
The Family Wealth System is the field guide to the one defense that has to keep working after you’re gone. In twelve sharp, story-driven chapters, it shows you how to turn a pile of assets into something that outlives you: trusts that protect the money without ruining the people who inherit it, estate plans that spare your family a war, governance and a family constitution that keep love and money from destroying each other, and heirs trained to carry wealth instead of be crushed by it.
A family once richer than the U.S. Treasury went broke in three generations. Yours doesn’t have to.
Read it before you write a single check.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length2 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 13, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE FAMILY WEALTH SYSTEM
10Chapter Five: Estate Planning
2Trusts, Heirs, Marriage, Governance, and Why Wealth Dies in Three Generations
11Chapter Six: Prenups and Protection
3About the Series
12Chapter Seven: Family Governance
4Preface: The Hidden Argument
13Chapter Eight: The Family Constitution
5Introduction: Money Without Governance Becomes a Curse
14Chapter Nine: Teaching Children the Weight of Money
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6Chapter One: Why Wealth Dies in Three Generations
15Chapter Ten: Philanthropy Without Vanity
7Chapter Two: The Vanderbilt Warning
16Chapter Eleven: From Wealth to Culture
8Chapter Three: Heirs Are Not Born Ready
17Chapter Twelve: Legacy Is Not What You Leave. It Is What Survives.
9Chapter Four: Trust Funds and Their Dangers

