Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.
Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.