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Ross Perot is still on Forbes 400

If you can remember when it was considered vulgar to talk about how much money someone had, you are older than Forbes' ranking of rich people. The list began in the summer of 1982 with the first Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. In the ensuing years, Forbes has made net worths a staple of the American gossip mill.

Some of those original 400 are on the just-released Forbes list of the world's billionaires - minus the indignation they expressed three decades ago.

In 1982, Forbes estimated Dallasite Ross Perot's net worth at $325 million, a number he called wrong, "but that's not important," he said. "Nobody lucky enough to make a little money wants it put up on a billboard."

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Now 84, Perot clocked in on the current billionaires list at $3.7 billion.

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