27 Quotes by Hamdi Ulukaya

I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

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

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

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

I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.

My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

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

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.

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.'