Ulukaya Girisimi Quotes

#1. Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#2. 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 you don't do it right, you might lose everything. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#3. You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#4. 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, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#5. 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 come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#6. Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.' #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#7. I believe that as an entrepreneur, when you share success, it grows. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#8. Fage does not make great yogurt. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#9. There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#10. My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#11. 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 just going with my gut. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#12. I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#13. I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#14. 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 thousands of years. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#15. On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#16. Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya

#17. Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work. #Quote by Hamdi Ulukaya