#2 HP's Meg Whitman, head of global marketing and management at Hasbro

Meg Whitman, prior to her 10 years stint as eBAY CEO, worked at Hasbro and ran global management and marketing for the Mr. Potato Head children's toy. She was credited for rekindling the  interest in Mr. Potato Head, which was struggling at the time. In 2011, she licensed the Mr. Potato Head brand to television and helped the toy get its own show on Fox, according to Readwrite.

#1 Dell's Michael Dell: newspaper subscription sales

Michael Dell sold newspaper subscriptions over the phone when he was 16 years old. But then he applied his own strategy to see that the sales are good. He put together lists of people who'd just obtained marriage licenses and mortgages, figuring these folks wouldn't be moving and would be interested in subscribing. He made $18,000 in his first year in the newspaper subscription sales business, according to Encyclopedia.com.

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