Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
But as the business grows, you get more attention, and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you.… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have this consciousness… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002. — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
