Born in 1965, Michael Dell was interested in business at a very early age. He also had expensive collections and understood that he had to save money and use it toward investments. When he was twelve, he took a job washing dishes in a restaurant so that he could maintain his stamp collection. Not long after, while he was still in high school, he developed a method of finding customers to sign on for newspaper subscriptions. That endeavor made him a whopping eighteen-thousand dollars in one year.