“It taught me the difference between the two types of people in the world. Those that own the store, and those that scrape shit off the floor. You have to decide which one you want to be. I didn't want to scrape shit off the floor. I wanted to own the store.”
— Kevin O’Leary
Shark Tank investor, businessman, and former Canadian political candidate

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It is, in fact, what we call an enterogastrone hormone — an ileal brake hormone — that sends the signal that enough is enough, stop.

— Jens Juul Holst

What we have in the colon may actually be a kind of defence system regulating the mucosal integrity of the body.

— Jens Juul Holst

It was possible to get up to 0.4 milligrammes per day, and all of a sudden there was a 14 to 15 per cent weight loss. That changed the whole picture.

— Jens Juul Holst

Nobody in the beginning believed that it was possible to create an obesity treatment with this kind of drug. Everybody would say, “oh, it’s their own fault.”

— Jens Juul Holst

We have a compound that, as one of its main functions, really addresses precisely this. It remedies the inflammation and the toxic consequences of obesity.

— Jens Juul Holst

It should remain a prescription drug — because you need instructions at the same time on what to do.

— Jens Juul Holst