But be careful as you prioritize the tasks at hand, for immediate pleasures are fleeting while your long-term investments now will be the ones that will bring the greatest rewards.

但是要小心区分你手头的任务的先后次序，立时快乐是短暂的，而你现在的长期投入才是会带来最大回报的。

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In private, his advisers must be warning him, 'be careful, with your hand on the tiller, Sir, any sudden correction to the present course could leave us jumping for the lifeboats.

私下里，他的顾问会告诉他‘小心，你手里有舵，先生，任何对现状突然地纠正都会让我们去上救生船’。

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