
According to the family history of rise and decline for those rich families, it shows that no matter how they become wealthy, the case of keeping rich for over three generations is very hard to find. After the reform and opening-up, chinese private enterprise has exceeded 30 milllion, many are facing the fate of not over three generations because the entrepreneurs can’t find successor in their children on the basis of a investigation. There a research indicates that children in recent rich family only 10% of them inherit their parents’s good trait and become a up man.
This phenomenon is not just the character of china, the global family enterprise are all facing this problem, in America, the rate of family enterprise still can keep till next generation is only 30%, to the third generation is 12%, to the fourth or over it is 3%, so there is a saying of rich farmer-noble son-poor grandchild in Portugal. In German, there is three words to express the fate of three generations: create, inherit, destroy.
Chinese people like to provide the best living and learning conditions to their children, not pay attention to training their ability of practice, many rich family children spend luxiously abroad, which shocks their native neighbor. A lot of rich entrepreneur has no conscious on teaching finance to their children. While there still some family can keep their wealth untill the third generation, then what they has done?
First, emphasis the train of behavior, before learning to do something, people should learn how to behave, a family, nation or country, no matter it is rich or keeping rich, they are all based on the people. The most rich person in china Li Jiacheng ever points out the importance of behavior in children education.
Second, the education of diligence and frugality, Adam Smith ever said that a man living in rich family even though had the quality of frugality, it is still hard to make it.
Third, the spirit of struggling. There is a saying in west philosophy that suffer creates the greatness, people without suffering are just like the flower in greenhouse, once facing the wind and rain from outside, they will frustrate and fall down.
Fourthly, the foster of ability, parents’ coddlings only cause them to lose the ability of independence, and hurt the children at last. The aims to cultivate the children’s independence ability is to make them understand the hardness of money and cherish the already wealth. The richest nation in the world, Jew children are taught to distinguish coins and bills by their parents in early age.









