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Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Nov. 2,1912
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Worry—The Cause of Business Failure
BUSINESS man who has planned and executed some most commendable moves of trade aggres-
sion remarked to me the other day, that he had never entertained more sanguine feelings re-
garding the future of the piano business than at the present time. He said he was going
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ahead with larger plans—greater investments and vaster energy than ever before, because he felt
that the purchasing power of this country had increased so materially by the addition of vast sums of
wealth from agricultural and mineral resources that he felt justified in making large expenditures in the
development of new plans.
Right thinking, to my mind, for there are big opportunities ahead in every trade and in every pro-
fession, and the men who back their beliefs with capital and energy are the ones who will win, for it is
such men who are business builders in the truest sense.
They take chances, but they feel that with fundamental conditions good the chances against them
are reduced to a large extent.
I also met another gentleman the same day of exactly the opposite type. He insisted on taking the
most pessimistic view of the business outlook. He could see nothing but destruction and depression on
every side; in fact, he belonged to that class of men who have the worry habit, a very bad habit to
encourage.
They insist that time spent in trying to change the course of their depressing thoughts is time wasted
—that there are many occasions when not to worry would be an evidence of lack of interest in the vital
affairs of life.
The trouble with such persons is that they have not discovered the difference between worry and
anxiety. There are times when anxiety affords a legitimate avenue for thought, but there is never a
time when worry is legitimate.
Worry retards and depresses, and raises a fatal barrier between us and the realization of our ideals.
We may have the highest ideals, we may form the most perfect plans, but if we approach the creative
work with fear in our hearts we stand a mighty poor chance of accomplishing anything worth while.
Worry is a mental poison and it depresses the energy which is necessary to business health and
strength. Our bodies are power houses for the creation of energy. If we apply this energy in the
proper direction, devoting it to a single purpose, there need be practically no limit to the possibility
of achievement, but the moment worry enters our minds the chances for success are materially lessened,
and the business man who worries about his future is not likely to win tremendous success.
The gentleman to whom I referred who was saturated with worry has not been conspicuous on account
of his successful moves. He is brainy, intelligent, and has splendid creative faculties r but he lacks courage
—worry dominates—and as a result he has been somewhat of a misfit in the commercial world.
Worry has kept him back and I believe it will to the end, and I believe furthermore that it has kept
many men from marching to the quick step of progress.
It is well to expel such a factor from within ourselves, for useless worry will cripple every man's
business possibilities.
Take an imaginative man who is saturated with worry and who possesses a nervous temperament.
These two mental conditions will be sure to affect his physical >health in time, for he will work himself
into such a nervous state that all of his energies will be crippled.
Take the other type of man to whom I have referred. Worry does not hold him back, for when it
has entered into his mind he has crushed it out with a determination which showed that such a happi-
ness destroyer could obtain no lodgement with him.
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