5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries

If you are a businessman, you are probably saying to yourself right now, “The title of this chapter is ridiculous. I have been running my business for nineteen years; and I certainly know the answers if anybody does. The idea of anybody trying to tell me how I can eliminate fifty per cent of my business worries—it's absurd!”

Fair enough—I would have felt exactly the same way myself a few years ago if I had seen this title on a chapter. It promises a lot—and promises are cheap.

Let's be very frank about it: maybe I won't be able to help you eliminate fifty per cent of your business worries. In the last analysis, no one can do that, except yourself. But what I can do is to show you how other people have done it—and leave the rest up to you!

You may recall that I quoted the world-famous Dr.Alexis Carrel as saying:

“Businessmen who do not know how to fight worry die young.”

Since worry is that serious, wouldn't you be satisfied if I could help you eliminate even ten per cent of your worries?... Yes?...Good! Well, I am going to show you how one business executive eliminated not Fifty per cent of his worries, but seventy-five per cent of all the time he formerly spent in conferences, trying to solve business problems.

Furthermore, I am not going to tell you this story about a “Mr.Jones” or a “Mr.X” or “a man I know in Ohio”—vague stories that you can't check up on. It concerns a very real person—Leon Shimkin, a former partner and general manager of one of the foremost publishing houses in the United States—Simon and Schuster, Rockefeller Centre, New