Omar Zenhom describes the ultra-wealthy, those worth $30-$100 million, as quiet and invisible. They don't flash jewelry or entourages because they've stopped needing to prove anything. The loudest people about money are rarely the richest in the room.
I spent time with people in the global top 0.01%. We're talking about people worth $30, $50, $100 million. The ultra-wealthy don't look the way you think they look. They don't act the way you think they act. And the thing about them that makes them so different from everyone else is most certainly not what you're expecting. You walk past most of them every single day and you wouldn't know it. No signal, no aura, no obvious display of wealth. Most of these people that I've met don't really have anything that is showing their wealth. No flashy jewelry, no entourage. Garage, no real performance of wealth. Why? Because they don't need to. They are already secure in who they are. They don't have to prove anything to anybody else anymore. And what I found is the people who are loudest about their money are almost never the wealthiest people in the room. The wealthiest people in the room are usually the ones you haven't even clocked yet. The people that are quiet, that are at the end of the table asking questions, that are listening. Because guess what? That's how they got wealthy.
