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James E. Hughes, Jr. | Family Advisor for 5 Decades | Avoiding the Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves Proverb | S2 E2 | 2
Welcome to Talking Billions!
James E. Hughes, Jr. | Family Advisor for 5 Decades | Book: Family Wealth | Family Governance | The 5 Capitals | Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves | A 100 Year Thinking | A Story of a Toy Purchase
My guest today is Mr. James Hughes, Jay, is my dear friend, and mentor. We talk every month, but this is our first ever recorded talk. He shares his treasured conversations with his late father, a lifetime of experience, and boundless wisdom of family wealth.
Mr. Hughes, a resident of Aspen, Colorado, is an author, advisor to families, founder of a law partnership in New York City that represented private clients throughout the world, now retired from active practice of law. His wonderful book Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family talks about family governance and wealth preservation with focus on the avoidance of the “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves” proverb and on the dynamic growth of families’ human, intellectual, social, spiritual, and financial capitals toward their families’ flourishing.
We will talk about:
The challenges of the shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations proverb, and the courage it takes to overcome it.
The five capitals, looking beyond the financial capital of a family.
A hundred-year thinking in a family, looking back and looking forward around a family table.
How to talk with kids about money, a story of a toy purchase.
How to help families and individuals prosper and flourish.
