From the article:<p><i>Most millionaires opt for stealth wealth. Their friends don’t know, their coworkers don’t know, their extended family doesn’t know. In a few cases, not even their children know! Wealth is accumulated through habits; at least in a free society like ours. At the moment, something like 1 out of 25 households falls into the millionaire category, most of it self-made.</i><p>From the comments:<p><i>Your right in Jack MacDonald's case too, he didn't make his initial money from stocks, his wealth was inherited which was then invested, he didn't spend any of it because he thought of himself as the steward of the inherited wealth<p>"His wealth was inherited from his parents, who owned MacDonald Meat Co. in Seattle, and he sought to boost the funds by investing their money"</i><p>"Wealth is accumulated through habits" is a great story to tell people but it seems very often to be complete BS.