Article January 1, 1972 Issue

Don't Be a Small Businessman!

WARREN T. BROOKES

We hear so much about the huge corporations that seem to dominate the business and industrial world that we sometimes forget that a major share of the world's business is still carried on by comparatively small firms, often owned and operated by a single individual or family.

As the commercial world has grown more organized, and complex, the challenge of running a successful small business has increased. Formidable competition from corporate conglomerates with rich financial resources, pressure from powerful trade unions, complex government tax and fiscal regulations, all these and many other pressures put the small businessman on his mettle simply to survive. He may well feel helpless, embattled, a lonely individual struggling against forces that are beyond his control.

If you are a small businessman who feels this way, Christian Science has an immensely helpful answer, an answer that may at first glance seem paradoxical: "Don't be a small businessman."

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