Increased confidence
A great many men accomplish less than their abilities and energy entitle them to accomplish, simply because they do not feel sure of themselves. The boldest man alive becomes uncertain and timid in the face of unfamiliar difficulties. The man who follows the Modern Business Course and Service becomes acquainted at close range with business difficulties as well as with tried methods of overcoming them; he learns how to tackle such difficulties and goes forward without fear or misgivings.
The series of Modern Business Problems which constitute an important feature of the Modern Business Course and Service is especially intended to cultivate familiarity with difficult business situations and thereby to create self-confidence.
They are problems of the kind which executives are constantly meeting. The man who can solve them successfully should have no difficulty when he meets similar problems that arise in his own work.
A better and broader grasp of the principles and practices that underlie all business also suggests ways of widening the scope of one's business activity and gives the necessary confidence to go ahead and do it. Mr. John McBride, of McBride's Theatre Ticket Office, New York, wrote us after completing the Modern Business Course:
"The average man can double his faith in himself in a few months if he will master the fundamentals of business through your training."
Mr. W. H. Schmelzel, President of the W. H. Schmelzel Company, of St. Paul, Minnesota, wrote after he had followed the Course:
"It is my personal opinion that every young business man of today depends a great deal on consultation or advice from a successful and experienced adviser or friend on all matters of a business nature.
"In the early days of my business experience I was confronted with the task of making decisions preparing myself for the problems I was to solve in the years to follow. Having been born and raised in a small town in a Western State, I was content with advice and consultation of my acquaintances in matters pertaining to the thoughts I wished to carry out.
"I was, therefore, eager to obtain assistance from a corps of experts in their particular line, and after giving your Modern Business Course considerable scrutiny, and being informed on the class of men, that I felt confident of their success, and I realized that such a Course had merit, and one which I could afford to consult, advise with and build my future with ideas and methods you had so ably worked out."