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.

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

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.

Fage does not make great yogurt.

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

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.

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

What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.

It’s not our mistakes that define us. It’s the lessons we learn that show our true character.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

The need for some venture of faith still remains one must stake one's life upon something.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you

You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.