More From Haile Gebrselassie
- "You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, ‘Why don’t you find a personal coach or a private car?’ I can’t. Then I won’t be part of my people."
- "I can’t change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation."
- "It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest."
More In History
- "History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them."― B. R. Ambedkar
- "By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation’s history, the President’s policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future."― Paul Ryan
- "I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is."― Hugh Laurie