About the time Christopher Moore was preparing to head to Holy Cross for a rigorous Jesuit education, his father pulled his son aside.
The senior Moore advised: “Medicine’s not really what it used to be. You have a lot of interests. Why don’t you focus on a liberal arts education, where you can learn how to learn?”
He had spent his life watching his parents work in the medical field and raise a family on the fruits of their efforts.
“All my life I had said to myself, ‘This is what I want to do,’” Moore says. “Watching my parents run their own businesses as medical professionals. My dad would send out marketing cards to attract new patients and balance his books on the kitchen table. My mom would come home and talk through hiring challenges with my dad.”
Moore also recalls his father’s passion for investing. He was an avid follower of equity markets, subscribed to ValueLine and purchased his own common shares of stock.
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