Stealth wealth is a safe way to operate. Become rich — become wildly rich — but don’t live a lavishly rich lifestyle. This is one lesson you don’t want to learn the hard way.

This perspective shifts the focus from accumulating cash for the sake of being rich to using it to achieve life goals, whether that’s traveling the world or funding innovative projects.

Pretending to be rich is usually a form of impression management. It’s the idea that we’re all performing on life’s stage, carefully curating what we show the audience. In the age of social ...