Running with a gazelle, eating with a lion

A gazelle or a lion? A gazelle and a lion?
A gazelle and a lion? Oh, I wanna be both!

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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will be starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.

-African Proverb-
(Mentioned in "The World Is Flat", UK edition, 2006, p. 137.)