![]() ![]() ![]() Torre calls this a fine example of neo-Darwinian motivation. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” Atty. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Sue Tabor keeps the troops fired up by sending them “inspirational” messages, one of her latest and greatest being, “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It’s a jungle out there, tiger: No wonder things are so gung-ho at the downtown Nordstrom. She used the proverb because she thought it would help inspire her employees: 1988 December 15, San Francisco Chronicle, A Mess of Dottage by Herb Caen, Page B1, San Francisco, California. In 1988 the noted San Francisco columnist Herb Caen featured the quotation in an item about the department store manager Sue Tabor. Oyez International Business Communications, London Conference of Stockbrokers, June 5, 1985. The stock exchange: Deregulation and new technology. The authors cited the Economist article and a business report by Montano: 1987, The Calculus of International Communications: A Study in the Political Economy of Transborder Data Flows by Meheroo Jussawalla and Chee-Wah Cheah, and 25, Libraries Unlimited, Inc., … Continue reading In 1987 the initial proverb was reprinted in the book “The Calculus of International Communications” and it was credited to Montano. In addition, the introduction of a human character shifted the focus of the proverb: 1986 July, Analog, Series: Science Fact, “The Long Stern Chase: A Speculative Exercise” by Rick Cook, Start, Quote, Volume 106, Number 7, Davis Publications, Inc. … Continue readingĪ lion wakes up each morning thinking, “All I’ve got to do today is run faster than the slowest antelope.”Īn antelope wakes up thinking, “All I’ve got to do today is run faster than the fastest lion.”Ī human wakes up thinking, “To hell with who’s fastest, I’ll outlast the bastards.” In 1986 the science fiction magazine Analog published a variant that used the term antelope instead of a gazelle. Here are additional selected citations in chronological order. Montano may have constructed this proverb himself, or he may have relayed words that he heard or read elsewhere. * The Stock Exchange: Deregulation and New Technology: Oyez International Business Communications. They chuckled, perhaps, a touch indulgently at predictable American excess. Dan Montano of Montano Securities, an American equities dealer. Stockbrokers and bankers at a recent London conference on financial technology* laughed appreciatively at this sally from Mr. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. The earliest instance located by QI appeared in the Economist magazine in 1985 in an article titled “Lions or gazelles?” where the words were credited to a securities analyst named Dan Montano: 1985 July 6, Economist, Special added section: “The other dimension: Technology and the City of London: A survey”, “Lions or gazelles?”,, Economist Newspaper Ltd., … Continue readingĮvery morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. The quotation was disseminated via multiple avenues including his book and a motivational poster with the title “The Essence of Survival” that reprinted the text. Friedman labeled the passage an “African proverb” and did not attempt to determine its origin. He said that a sign written in Mandarin on the factory floor of an auto parts manufacturer in China recounted the tale. Friedman,, , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York. Quote Investigator: Thomas Friedman helped to popularize the proverb about the lion and the gazelle by including it in his 2005 bestseller “The World is Flat” 2005, The World is Flat: a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Do you recognize this saying, and do you know who created it? The text was a fable about lions and gazelles, and the title was something like the “The Key to Survival.” Paraphrasing: To survive the lion must catch the gazelle and the gazelle must outrun the lion. Blank? Sue Tabor? Herb Caen? Christopher McDougall? Roger Bannister? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: Last year I saw a motivational poster with a portrait of a lion. ![]()
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