Hamdi Ulukaya

Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes,…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Fage does not make great yogurt.

— Hamdi Ulukaya

I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

— Hamdi Ulukaya

But as the business grows, you get more attention, and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.

— Hamdi Ulukaya

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

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…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business,…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Shepherd. It's a very beautiful word. It represents peace. And it meant a lot to me because...I come from a life with…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.

— Hamdi Ulukaya

I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

— Hamdi Ulukaya

I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

I believe that as an entrepreneur, when you share success, it grows.

— Hamdi Ulukaya