"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up..."

The other day I was reading some book, and this African poem came up...

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the fastest cheetah, or it will be
killed.
Every morning in Africa, a cheetah wakes up.
It knows it must outrun
the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a gazelle or a cheetah -
when the sun comes up, you'd better start running.

I suppose most people at some time or other would have heard or read it (apparently, it was used in a Nike ad campaign in the US some time ago).

But I thought it was very good verse, considering the increasingly dog-eat-dog world we live in today. Or shall i say, cheetah-eat-gazelle world...