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From iCEO to CEO
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Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title.
兩年多的時間里，喬布斯在蘋果董事會的導師埃德·伍拉德一直在催促他把“臨時”一詞去掉。
Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options.
喬布斯不僅一直拒絕承認自己的職位，更讓大家困惑的是，他每年只拿1美元年薪，而且也沒有領取期權。
"I make 50 cents for showing up," he liked to joke, "and the other 50 cents is based on performance."
喬布斯對此開玩笑說：“50美分是出勤，另外50美分要看工作表現。”
Since his return in July 1997,
自從他1997年7月回歸以來，
Apple stock had gone from just under $14 to just over $102 at the peak of the Internet bubble at the beginning of 2000.
蘋果的股價已從將近14美元漲到了2000年初互聯網泡沫時期的102美元以上。
Woolard had begged him to take at least a modest stock grant back in 1997,
1997年，伍拉德懇請他拿回一些股權，
but Jobs had declined, saying, "I don't want the people I work with at Apple to think I am coming back to get rich."
但是喬布斯拒絕了：“我不希望公司里的同事認為我是為了錢才回來的?！?/div>
Had he accepted that modest grant, it would have been worth $400 million.
如果他當初接受了伍拉德的請求，他的股票價值如今已達到4億美元。
Instead he made $2.50 during that period.
但事實上，他這兩年多只拿了2.5美元的工資。
The main reason he clung to his interim designation was a sense of uncertainty about Apple's future.
他堅持掛著“臨時”名號的主要原因是他對蘋果公司的未來有一種不確定感。
But as 2000 approached, it was clear that Apple had rebounded, and it was because of him.
但是隨著2000年臨近，很明顯蘋果已經東山再起了，而這都歸功于他。
He took a long walk with Laurene and discussed what to most people by now seemed a formality but to him was still a big deal.
他和妻子勞倫一起散步時討論了這件事，大多數人都認為這是水到渠成，而他卻覺得這是個重大的決定。
If he dropped the interim designation, Apple could be the base for all the things he envisioned,
如果他去掉了“臨時”一詞，蘋果公司將可能實現他所有的設想，
including the possibility of getting Apple into products beyond computers. He decided to do so.
包括讓蘋果進軍計算機產業以外的市場。他最終作出了決定。
