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And still Gates get it to the top. This is according to the latest issue of the Forbes magazine, I am referring to the 25th Anniversary Issue of the this magazine.

"One billion dollars is no longer enough..." to get in the America's most exclusive club.

Here is the List of The 400 Richest Americans

#1
William H. Gates III

Net Worth: $59 billion
Source: Microsoft
Residence: Medina, Wash.
Age: 51
Marital Status: Married, 3 children

• Harvard dropout and Microsoft visionary preparing to give up day-to-day involvement in company he cofounded 32 years ago to spend more time focused on his philanthropic endeavors.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation manages $33 billion, donates to causes aimed at bringing financial tools to the poor, speeding up the development of vaccines (for AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis), bettering America's lagging high schools.
• Sells 20 million Microsoft shares every quarter, proceeds going to private investment vehicle Cascade; more than half of net worth now outside of Microsoft.
• Company's new operating system, Vista, debuted in January to mixed reviews; shares up 12% in past year.
• Pressing on Google's turf (and vice versa); spent $6 billion to land Web ad firm Aquantive in May.
• Would-be rival to Apple's iPod, the Zune, not yet a hit.
• Believes Microsoft's far-flung bets, including 10-year affair with Internet-based television, may soon pay off; says next 10 years will be the "most interesting" in software history.
• Early goal: put "a computer on every desk and in every home."
• Soon more than 1 billion computers will run Windows.
• Days as world's richest man may be over; Mexican Carlos Slim Helú also worth $59 billion.

#2. Warren Buffett
#3. Sheldon Adelson
#4. Lawrence Ellison
#5. Sergey Brin
#5. Larry Page
#7. Kirk Kerkorian
#8. Michael Dell
#9. Charles Koch
#9. David Koch
#11. Paul Allen
#12. Jim Walton
#12. Christy Walton & Family
#12. S. Robson Walton
#15. Alice Walton
#16. Steven Ballmer
#17. Abigail Johnson
#18. Carl Icahn
#19. Jack Crawford Taylor & Family
#19. Forrest Mars Jr.
#19. John F. Mars
#19. Jacqueline Mars

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