Getting rich quick will not happen . Suppose novo nordisk discovers the cure tomorrow . It hits trials and it works perfectly , 100 % cure rate . They speed it off to production , get fast track FDA approval , and six months later , everyone in the world is cured . I hope you sold your stock after the announcement , because there is a multibillion dollar business made to serve people with a disease that no longer exists . Sure they sold a million cures at 10 K apiece , but now everyone at novo nordisk , and every other diabetic care company is out of business . Business like BD , omnipod , Lilly , and many others are now downsizing to stop the bleeding . Thousands if not millions are out of work do to it . Entire wings of hospitals are no longer in use and are shut down , Specialists like endo ' s are out of work . Then again , there ' s always type II