If you start a business you shouldn't expect any profit for a first few months.

[tufguy]

1) If you start a business you shouldn't expect any profit for a first few months.

2) You will get back or earn what you will invest not a single penny more than that (like if you invest $100 you will get back only $100. Once you have established your business firmly than you will start making profit.).

 

[GoesStation]

1)2) You will get back or earn what you will invest not a single penny more than that (like if you invest $100 you will get back only $100. Once you have established your business firmly than you will start making profit.).

It would make life a lot simpler if you stuck to one sentence at a time. This has been suggested several (dozen) times before.

Tufguy, you offered two possibilities in sentence 2: "get back" and "earn". If you want to ask whether you should use "get back" or "earn", write a variation of the sentence with each verb and number them. ​Every time you see the word "or" in one of your example questions, make sure it's part of the sentence and not a way to ask about two different words or phrases.

 

[Rover_KE]

1) '... for the ​first few months.'

 

[tufguy]

Tufguy, you offered two possibilities in sentence 2: "get back" and "earn". If you want to ask whether you should use "get back" or "earn", write a variation of the sentence with each verb and number them. ​Every time you see the word "or" in one of your example questions, make sure it's part of the sentence and not a way to ask about two different words or phrases.

1) If you start a business you shouldn't expect any profit for the first few months.

2) You will earn what you will invest not a single penny more than that (like if you invest $100 you will get back only $100. Once you have established your business firmly than you will start making profit.).

 

[GoesStation]

1) If you start a business you shouldn't expect any profit for the first few months. :tick: [Grammatically correct. Realistically, that should be "the first few years".]

2) You will earn what you will invest not a single penny more than that (like if you invest $100 you will get back only $100. Once you have established your business firmly than you will start making profit.).

The one or two sentences in number 2 are a mess. Write some short, simple sentences without parentheses ("brackets" in BrE) for our consideration.

 

[tufguy]

The one or two sentences in number 2 are a mess. Write some short, simple sentences without parentheses ("brackets" in BrE) for our consideration.

2) You get only that much of money back that you invest in a business for the first few years. Not even a single penny more than that.

 

[emsr2d2]

For the first few years of running a business, you might break even. You won't make a profit.

 

[tufguy]

you might break even.

Do you mean "give up" by this?

How about my sentence?

 

[Matthew Wai]

http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/even_2#even_2__144
Scroll down to 'break even'.

 

[GoesStation]

2) You get only that much of money back that you invest in a business for the first few years. Not even a single penny more than that.

You get as much money back from a business in the first few years as you invested in it, and no more.

 

[emsr2d2]

Here's how "make a loss", "break even" and "make a profit" work on a smaller scale than owning a business but the idea is the same.

You buy a pair of trousers for £100. You sell them to someone else for £90. You make a loss.
You buy a pair of trousers for £100. You sell them to someone else for £100. You break even.
You buy a pair of trousers for £100. You sell them to someone else for £110. You make a profit.