With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?

I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.