Which is better Cinema 4d, Blender or Maya

Am planning on running my own multi-media production company, but as it stands right now, I have to do everything from pre/post-production, effects and lighting right down the line for some of the work I want to do, I believe if I learn a 3d software like C4D, Blender or Maya, I will be able compete way better with my competitors in the market am in right now.
So I think the key is to be able to do some cool high end 3d stuff in a timely manner.
But the only problem is, I don't know which one to choose:
C4D - is cheaper and looks like it can get the job done, for most commericials and other small productions I will be doing.
Maya- someone told me the possibilites are endless in this program, but the only thing is, it is very expensive, so I don't know if it would make sense to invest so much into a software and hardly push it to its limit.
Blender - am not sure about this, it's free LOL
Regards,
Semple

I am primarily an editor/motion graphics guy. In the past I have dabbled with Lightwave.
After Effects recently got the ability to use 3D models through the use of Video Copilot's Element 3D. This is a break through that blows me away. I found I needed a tool to help prep the models for use in E3D. I downloaded Blender and took the time over 2 weeks to comprehensively go thru tutorials so I would be familiar with it.
I am here to say that Blender 2.66 in many ways competes and exceeds the programs costing lots more. It has features that only C4Ds most expensive version has. And the Cycles render is a photo realistic tool built right in. No additional purchases necessary. I have worked with Pro level tools most of my career (Avid DS, Syntheyes. Mocha) and the newest interface is much more impressive then C4D.
Judge for yourself.
http://www.blender.org/features-gallery/features/
http://www.blenderguru.com/
http://thenatureacademy.blenderguru.com/sp/7612-the-nature-academy-live-now
http://cgcookie.com/blender/

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