When I was in my 30’s, I worked real hard and made pots of money.
No sleep.
Many seizures.
But big bucks.
Just how profitable is the pharmaceutical industry?
A study indicates that the profits gained by drug developers outpaced those of other publicly-traded companies by a wide margin over an 18-year period.
Merck & Co., long a standard bearer for the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, earned $10 billion in profits last year. Pfizer, its larger peer, booked even more: $16 billion.
A question was posed to the Dalai Lama:
What is the thing about humanity that surprises you the most?”
His answer was as follows: