What are the strongest motives in your life and work?
The truth.
What is the motto that directs your life?
Innovation means Creation and Creation is not about copying.
What is the biggest satisfaction in the business you had?
The selection and ranking of our main product, Avgotarho (=Bottarga) Trikalinos, from the greatest culinary creator the Spanish Chef Ferran Adria, among the 30 Best Products of the World.
Which is the mistake you learned most from?
Not putting limits, whether it has to do with time, capital investment or trusting others.
Have you ever thought of giving up?
Why;
Why did you change your mind and kept on?
I have never thought of giving up, despite the fact that the conditions in which we work in our country are adverse, filled with uncertainty and constant change.
What do failure and success mean to you?
Success is to raise independent and healthy people. Offer your children values and judgment, and transpire in them respect for every creature, creation, and idea. The equilibrium … To manage to pass your character to the scope of your work. Otherwise, no matter how many successes you have in business, you will always search for yourself and this is a failure.
What other interests do you have apart from your job?
My friends and my family.
Say some words that will inspire young entrepreneurs.
Find the identity of the product or service you offer. Discover the past, explore every aspect and enhancement, and visualize where you want to reach and how you will get there. In a nutshell, discover the past, plan the present and the future of your business.
Make a wish
To acquire as consumers the necessary national consciousness so that Greek producers can regain the necessary confidence in the competition with Italian, French – and other Mediterranean countries – producers.
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