As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro. ↗
The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you. ↗
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product. ↗
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. ↗