FORBES 4OO BEGINNINGS

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All great stories—and great fortunes— start someplace. And in our 38th annual ranking of America’s richest people, we focus on how The Forbes 400 got going. Spielberg had Jaws; Murdoch the Daily

Mirror; Dell his dorm room PCs. There is no single path to the top.

Clockwise from top left: Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Ralph Lauren, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Dell, Oprah Winfrey.