“I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub.”
Madam C. J. Walker, speech to the National Negro Business League convention (1912). She went on: then to the cook kitchen, and from there she promoted herself into manufacturing, with her own factory.
Plenty of firms began with someone who cleaned, cooked or drove for others and then did it for themselves.
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