Who Are the Richest People in Town?
provided by Every town has a richest person. Do you know who the richest person in your town is? Have you ever wondered who the richest man in town is? W. Randall Jones has. The former magazine executive found himself in a country club near his hometown of Carrollton, Ga., one day when someone he was with pointed out a man at another table and said: “See him? He’s the richest man in town.” More from BusinessWeek.com: The Richest Man (or Woman) in Town • What Successful People Have Learned From Failure The Most Expensive Small Towns in America That got Jones thinking. What his friend did is what people have been doing for millennia: pointing out the richest man in town. Sometimes people just want to know out of curiosity; other times it’s because they think such proximity to wealth might present an opportunity. And, of course, the scale of the wealth in question might vary widely. What might pass for rich in a small town in Georgia may seem like a rounding error when compared with t
