"When the opportunity arrived I was ready for it. We organized our company and the first year did more than a million dollar business.
"In my judgment, the reason why so many men never get into business for themselves or fail after
they do get in, is because they are not prepared for their opportunity when it comes."
Mr. H. C. Smith, President, Allith-Prouty Manufacturing Company, Chicago, states why the Modern Business Course and Service is helpful without being revolutionary:
"All men who have been successful must be credited with having good business principles. Your Course does not require changing these principles, but it will broaden one's own ideas and enable him to get greater results."
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: