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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.