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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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