http://www.universalsports.com/news/article/newsid=462834.html#gebrselassies+impact+extends+beyond+running

Amazing man, more people should learn from him. He could set up companies in other countries and earn much more, but he chooses to invest in his own company.


"I always ask (American) journalists, how many years have you been helping this country, how many years have you been sending food to Ethiopia or Africa?" Gebrselassie said. "But if we learn to help ourselves, we help America and Ethiopia. In the future, when you send something, don't send us things that make us lazy. Food, for me, is like a temporary solution. A solution that is long lasting must be something to transfer knowledge, something that shows how to change the situation, how to change the country. I like the saying, ‘Don't give a man a fish, show him how to go fishing.'