I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
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.
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
We haven't made money in NASCAR in a long time.
I don't believe in flagship retail, because the definition of flagship retail is that it's a marketing expense, and it's going to lose money.
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
I don't think there is anything unusual about a business losing money in certain years.
A club like ours loses £8-10m every year to be competitive, and nobody wants to keep a business that is losing money every year.
Very often, state utilities do not buy electricity even if they need it, as every unit purchased increases their losses.
