An introductory infinitive phrase, in this case, To keep his nerves calm, should be separated by a comma from the subject of the sentence, which is Farmer.
To keep his nerves calm, Farmer said he avoided reading the newspaper headlines as he felt that nobody really new what was going on and his chief concern was “bullet-proofing” the company.
Source
‘The crunch’s shock waves are spreading’, Sunday Times, 28 September 2008, p. 11
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