McMoRan is a small company with very big ideas and the bigger than life personality of a very tall and very successful geologist driving its ambition.
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While greedy investors deserve what they got, they received little help from Wall Street and in particular those that made this IPO the bigger than life event that it was.
But I realized that if I was to harness the energies of the people of the city of New York and give them back their pride, I would have to become bigger than life.
As Sven said, a lot of the interviews that have stuck with us are with older people whose reputations have become bigger than life, who can be honest instead of protecting their image with fake answers.
They were all bigger than life, literally and figuratively, in their heydays -- from towering, 6-foot-9 inch Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden to the "Big Tuna, " the moniker given to legendary and well-traveled coach Bill Parcells.
In an era when stakeholders value companies based on both the specifics and nuance of reputation, the addition of a bigger-than-life CEO reputation skews those expectations, as well as makes them unreasonable.
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Granted, texting just might be bigger than Hollywood these days, but bigger than concern for one's own life?
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Which raises the question: Does he play a souped-up version of himself for his audience as Donald Trump, a character bigger and broader than its real-life inspiration?
It's the most challenging adventure I've ever taken in my life and has the potential to be bigger than everything I've ever done.
And he arguably became even bigger after his death 30 years ago this Thursday than he ever was in life.
It was time, naturally, to move onto bigger and better things -- and when your boss tells you he wants nothing more than a real-life Weighted Companion Cube from Portal 2, you begrudgingly concede.
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