Hamdi Ulukaya Quotes

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

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Believe, Entrepreneur, Share

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• 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.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Attitude, Giving, Community

  "Chobani Yogurt's Success Starts Where a Giant Left Off". Interview with Diana Ransom, www.entrepreneur.com. May 25, 2012.

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• 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 of winning.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Hate, Winning, Innovation

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• 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.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• 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

  Long, Exit, Creation

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• 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 what you’re doing.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Giving, Trying, Attention

  "Secrets Of The Most Productive People". www.fastcompany.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Shepherd. It's a very beautiful word. It represents peace. And it meant a lot to me because...I come from a life with shepherds and mountains and all that stuff.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Beautiful, Mountain, Very Beautiful

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Fage does not make great yogurt.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Doe, Yogurt

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

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Wall, Machines, Plant

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

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  New York, Feta Cheese, Company

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