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What does it mean?
Advice to display wealth or assets openly once acquired.
In plain terms
Show off what you have when you get it.
What can you take from it?
Openly displaying success can be seen as a celebration.

Where it applies

  • business deal
  • achievement announcement

Putting it to work

  • celebrate success openly

Questions to consider

  • Is flaunting wealth appropriate?

Another view

It may come across as arrogance.

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