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Fage does not make great yogurt.
Hamdi Ulukaya / Entrepreneur
Doe
Yogurt
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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Most Amazing
Yogurt
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I believe that as an entrepreneur, when you share success, it grows.
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Believe
Entrepreneur
Share
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
Hamdi Ulukaya / Entrepreneur
New York
Cheese
Company
Feta Cheese
Upstate New York
Upstate
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Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
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Descend
Bare
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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Have Fun
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On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
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Infrastructure
Magnificent
Plants
Tech
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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.
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Creation
Exit
Long
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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.
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Creation
Exit
Long Term
Manufacturing
Centered
Companies
Unlike
Objective
Quick
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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.
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Cemetery
Machines
Plant
Wall
Closed
Walls
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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.
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Hate
Innovation
Winning
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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.
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Aim
Big Guys
Attack
Startup
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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.
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Beautiful
Mountain
Very Beautiful
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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.
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Albany
Business School
Courses
Finish
State University
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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.
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Convenience
Demand
Airport
Struggling
Supermarket
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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Different Perspective
Equipment
Perspective
Plant
Big Company
Bought
Closed
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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.
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Enjoyed
Greece
Return
Yogurt
Appeal
Turkey
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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.
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Attention
Giving
Trying
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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.
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Journey
Department
Ran
Time Work Experience
Degree
Work Time Experience
Gut
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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.
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Manufacturing
Businesses
Entrepreneurs
Make A Difference
Small Businesses
Studies
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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.
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Family
Business
Cheese
Eastern
Farming
Father
Growing Up
Involved
Thinking
Unspoken
Years
Yogurt
Back
Family Business Father
Instincts
Cow
Family Business
Learned
Making
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Turkey
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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.
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Elsewhere
Manufacturing
Resurgence
Survival
Towns
Wealth
Communities
Entrepreneurs
Local
Small Towns
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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.
Hamdi Ulukaya / Entrepreneur
Curiosity
Dirt
Garbage
Half
Junk
Mail
Plant
Yogurt
Ad
Saw
Hour
Picked
Pile
Threw
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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.
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Important Things
Next Level
Count
Employees
Business Good People
In The End
Portion
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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.'
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Greece
Turkish
Yogurt
World Me Country
Introduced
Strained
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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.
Hamdi Ulukaya / Entrepreneur
Greece
Yogurt
Master
Forth
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Recipe
Turkey
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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.
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Attitude
Business Person
Community
Entrepreneurial
Giving
Plant
Small Business
Closes
Guarantee
He Or She
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
Hamdi Ulukaya / Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship
Fund
New York City
Silicon
Silicon Valley
App
Make A Difference
Valley
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