What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it,… — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun. — 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
