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Woolard was thrilled, and he suggested that the board was willing to give him a massive stock grant.
伍拉德非常興奮，他表示董事會愿意給他巨額股份。
"Let me be straight with you," Jobs replied.
“我直截了當(dāng)?shù)睾湍阏f吧，”喬布斯告訴他，
"What I'd rather have is an airplane. We just had a third kid.
“我更想要一架私人飛機。我剛剛有了第三個孩子。
I don't like flying commercial. I like to take my family to Hawaii.
我不喜歡搭商業(yè)航班。我只是想帶全家去夏威夷度假。
When I go east, I'd like to have pilots I know."
當(dāng)我去東海岸的時候，我更愿意讓我認(rèn)識的飛行員開飛機。”
He was never the type of person who could display grace and patience in a commercial airplane or terminal, even before the days of the TSA.
他是一個對商業(yè)航班和航站樓毫無好感和耐心的人，即便是被美國運輸安全管理局（TSA）接管之前也是一樣。
Board member Larry Ellison, whose plane Jobs sometimes used (Apple paid $102,000 to Ellison in 1999 for Jobs's use of it), had no qualms.
董事會成員拉里·埃利森爽快地答應(yīng)了喬布斯的要求（喬布斯用過幾次他的飛機，為此蘋果公司在1999年向埃利森支付了10.2萬美元）。
"Given what he's accomplished, we should give him five airplanes!" Ellison argued.
埃利森還說：“看在他作出那么多貢獻(xiàn)的份上，給他5架飛機都不為過！”
He later said, "It was the perfect thank-you gift for Steve, who had saved Apple and gotten nothing in return."
他后來又說：“這是一個完美的‘致謝禮物’，他拯救了蘋果，卻不求回報。”
So Woolard happily granted Jobs's wish, with a Gulfstream V, and also offered him fourteen million stock options.
所以，伍拉德愉快地答應(yīng)了喬布斯的要求，一架灣流V型飛機，此外還贈與他1400萬份期權(quán)。
Jobs gave an unexpected response. He wanted more: twenty million options.
但是喬布斯的回應(yīng)出乎所有人的意料。他想要更多：“2000萬份。”
Woolard was baffled and upset. The board had authority from the stockholders to give out only fourteen million.
伍拉德既困惑又生氣。董事會只有權(quán)從股東那里分出1400萬份期權(quán)。
"You said you didn't want any, and we gave you a plane, which you did want," Woolard said.
伍拉德說：“你說你不要別的，我們給了你一架飛機，你說你只要飛機。”
"I hadn't been insisting on options before," Jobs replied,
喬布斯回答：“我從來沒有在期權(quán)的問題上堅持過，
"but you suggested it could be up to 5% of the company in options, and that's what I now want."
但是你曾建議說，我最多能拿到公司5%的期權(quán)，這就是我現(xiàn)在想要的。”
