A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. — Henry Ford, innovating automaker

There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

As he explained in a 2007 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter, "The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines.

A business without a path to profit isn't a business, it's a hobby.

I thought of that phrase, “It’s just business.” It’s never just business. It never will be. If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad.

There are people so poor that the only thing they have is money.

It’s never just business. It never will be. If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad.

The business of financing is in a poor way. There is no plan found, or scheme digested, for mending our money. There are a thousand projects on foot; but none appears to be taken up on a practical footing.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.