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Jobs did indeed need one, badly. But he was careful not to show it.
喬布斯確實需要，非常需要。然而他也足夠冷靜，沒有表現出來。
He waited a week before calling back.
過了一周他才回復佩羅的電話。
Perot sent some of his analysts to size up NeXT, but Jobs took care to deal directly with Perot.
佩羅派了一些自己的分析師來評估NeXT，而喬布斯則謹慎地直接同佩羅打交道。
One of his great regrets in life, Perot later said, was that he had not bought Microsoft,
佩羅后來表示，自己人生中的最大憾事之一就是，
or a large stake in it, when a very young Bill Gates had come to visit him in Dallas in 1979.
1979年，當年輕的比爾·蓋茨前來達拉斯拜訪時，自己沒有收購微軟，或是買下大量股份。
By the time Perot called Jobs, Microsoft had just gone public with a $1 billion valuation.
佩羅打給喬布斯的時候，微軟剛剛上市，市值10億美元。
Perot had missed out on the opportunity to make a lot of money and have a fun adventure.
佩羅錯過了發大財和擁有一番有趣冒險的機會。
He was eager not to make that mistake again.
因此，他非常不愿意再犯下類似的錯誤。
Jobs made an offer to Perot that was three times more costly than had quietly been offered to venture capitalists a few months earlier.
喬布斯向佩羅提出的價錢，比數月前不動聲色地向其他不感興趣的風投公司提出的條件高出3倍。
For $20 million, Perot would get 16% of the equity in the company, after Jobs put in another $5 million.
在喬布斯再投入500萬美元后，佩羅可以用2000萬美元買下NeXT公司16%的份。
That meant the company would be valued at about $126 million.
這意味著，該公司的估值將達到大約1.26億美元。
But money was not a major consideration for Perot. After a meeting with Jobs, he declared that he was in.
但是，錢并不是佩羅考慮的主要因素。同喬布斯會面后，他宣布自己入伙。
"I pick the jockeys, and the jockeys pick the horses and ride them," he told Jobs.
“我挑選騎師，騎師挑選馬匹并駕馭它們，”他對喬布斯說，
"You guys are the ones I'm betting on, so you figure it out."
“你們就是我賭的騎師，因此，你們看著辦。”
