| ss="articletext"> | | | | around under the hoods of classic cars, Dell spent all |
| Famous Quote | | | | of his time with his Apple II. |
| "You donât have to be a genius or a | | | | Dell showed an aptitude for business from an early |
| visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. | | | | age. He was making thousands of dollars in mail-order |
| You just need a framework and a dream." | | | | sales to stamp collectors at the age of 12, and - |
| Growing Up | | | | through careful planning - earned an astonishing |
| Despite Mr. and Mrs. Dell's hopes that their son would | | | | $18,000 by selling newspaper subscriptions for the |
| become a doctor, by the time Michael Dell was in | | | | Houston Post (with which he bought his first BMW) in |
| grade seven, the boy's only area of interest was | | | | his final year of high school. |
| computers. While his classmates started playing | | | | |