“Business? Why, it's very simple: business is other people's money.”
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895) French writer and dramatist, son of the homonym writer and dramatist
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.