An "Inspirational" Leadership Quote...About Sperm?

I recently attended a leadership conference.

One of the last sessions of the conference was intended to be an uplifting "rah-rah" fest to get everyone excited. To inspire us to be charismatic leaders, we were each given a small card with about a dozen quotes that we could keep in our wallets and refer back to when we need a little encouragement.

The second quote on the card reads:
Think of sperm swimming upstream. For all but one of them it's going to be a very bad day.
~Howard Anderson

What?