Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that TOBBtalks are a matter of vision and underlined the necessity of institutionalizing the organization. Emphasizing that the greatest capital has become ideas, Hisarcıklıoğlu suggested that students maintain their ties with the university after graduation.

Pointing our Germany and Japan in order to illustrate the importance of entrepreneurship, Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that the lack of enterprise brought down the Soviets without a single bullet.

Reporting that it is necessary to find employment for 1 million new people joining the workforce each year, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “If we are unable to provide new job opportunities we will produce an unhappy youth looking for handouts. To find new jobs for a million people we need entrepreneurs. We all want to prosper. You must prosper so that the country might prosper. If you don’t prosper, you’ll just be taking orders.”

Stating that they’ve established the TOBB ETU Garage project in order to encourage entrepreneurs, TOBB ETU Board of Trustees Chair and TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu said that this is the age of innovation. Hisarcıklıoğlu stressed the importance of commercializing inventions for profit. Hisarcıklıoğlu provided examples from TOBB ETU Garage to illustrate this.

- Enterprise begins with a dream

Stating that there a series of golden rules for entrepreneurship, Hisarcıklıoğlu named dreaming as the first step. Stating that dreams are the freest people can be, TOBB ETU Board of Trustees Chair and TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu emphasized the need to set yourself a goal from that dream. Hisarcıklıoğlu listed the third rule as hard work.

Stating that a good idea is more valuable than anything else, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “There is plenty of money in the world but only a few ideas. You must bring about change. That is the core of the issue. We must develop everything we use in daily life with innovation. Never be afraid to fail.”