You can't operate a business running at a loss, and particularly if you're doing it by paying yourselves. It just doesn't fly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't run a business just by selling one thing.
You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.
I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.
Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.
Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.
Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
Sometimes you have to destroy your business in order to save it.