“Business? Why, it's very simple: business is other people's money.”

—  Alexandre Dumas, fils

Les affaires, c'est bien simple, c'est l'argent des autres.
La Question d'argent (1857), Act II, sc. vii; translation from Frederick Brown Theater and Revolution (New York: Viking Press, 1980) p. 5.

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