But as the business grows, you get more attention, and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give less to… — 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 I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was… — 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
