Posted By Randy Jones on July 30, 2010
When I was doing my research for The Richest Man in Town, I uncovered only four women who qualified as the richest self-made person in their town, and I visited the 100 largest towns in America. It wasn’t exactly a ringing endorsement that women were shattering the glass ceiling of wealth creation, but it certainly […]
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Posted By Randy Jones on April 9, 2010
You might be thinking Greenwich, Connecticut, Grosse Pointe, Michigan or Jupiter Island, Florida, but you have to travel much farther west to find the greatest concentration of the really rich according to the latest data from the IRS. Teton County, Wyoming (Jackson Hole), is the richest county in America according to the latest analysis from […]
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Posted By Randy Jones on March 26, 2010
The richest man or woman in town is a very happy human being. In my book, I closely correlated self-made success and its resultant wealth with happiness. I said this book proves that money does indeed, buy happiness. Along my journey of writing the book and interviewing these great American success stories though, I often […]
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Posted By Randy Jones on January 31, 2010
For most of my career, I have dealt with the rich. I’ve created publications for, written books about, and penned countless articles for magazines about the rich and powerful. I have written The Richest Man in Town where I interviewed the richest man or woman in town in 100 American cities to determine the shared […]
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