CHAPTER 20
Run Toward the Future
The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
—ALBERT EINSTEIN,theoretical physicist
STAYING AHEAD OF DANGER
In 1985, the Economist magazine shared a quote credited to securities analyst Dan Montano. Many variations of the quote have surfaced since. Dan purportedly said the following at a financial technology conference:
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 starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.
Everyone in a position ...
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