乔布斯演讲英文版

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

Stanford Report, June 14, 2005

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

Thank you.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5? deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of

being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

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谢谢大家。

（斯坦福）是世界上最好的大学之一，今天能参加各位的毕业典礼，我备感荣幸。（尖叫声）我从来没有从大学毕业，说句实话，此时算是我离大学毕业最近的一刻。（笑声）今天，我想告诉你们我生命中的三个故事，并非什么了不得的大事件，只是三个小故事而已。

第一个故事，是关于串起生命中的点点滴滴。（原文为“connecting the dots”指一种小游戏：把标有序列号的点连起来，就构成一幅图画——译注）

我在里德大学呆了6个月就退学了，但之后仍作为旁听生混了18个月后才最终离开。我为什么要退学呢？

故事要从我出生之前开始说起。我的生母是一名年轻的未婚妈妈，当时她还是一所大学的在读研究生，于是决定把我送给其他人收养。她坚持我应该被一对念过大学的夫妇收养，所以在我出生的时候，她已经为我被一个律师和他的太太收养做好了所有的准备。但在最后一刻，这对夫妇改了主意，决定收养一个女孩。侯选名单上的另外一对夫妇，也就是我的养父母，在一天午夜接到了一通电话：“有一个不请自来的男婴，你们想收养吗？”他们回答：“当然想。”事后，我的生母才发现我的养母根本就没有从大学毕业，而我的养父甚至连高中都没有毕业，所以她拒绝签署最后的收养文件，直到几个月后，我的养父母保证会把我送到大学，她的态度才有所转变。

17年之后，我真上了大学。但因为年幼无知，我选择了一所和斯坦福一样昂贵的大学，（笑声）我的父母都是工人阶级，他们倾其所有资助我的学业。在6个月之后，我发现自己完全不知道这样念下去究竟有什么用。当时，我的人生漫无目标，也不知道大学对我能起到什么帮助，为了念书，还花光了父母毕生的积蓄，所以我决定退学。我相信车到山前必有路。当时作这个决定的时候非常害怕，但现在回头去看，这是我这一生所作出的最正确的决定之

一。（笑声）从我退学那一刻起，我就再也不用去上那些我毫无兴趣的必修课了，我开始旁听那些看来比较有意思的科目。(退学，是一生所做出的最正确的决定之一)

这件事情做起来一点都不浪漫。因为没有自己的宿舍，我只能睡在朋友房间的地板上；可乐瓶的押金是5分钱，我把瓶子还回去好用押金买吃的；在每个周日的晚上，我都会步行7英里穿越市区，到Hare Krishna教堂吃一顿大餐，我喜欢那儿的食物。我跟随好奇心和直觉所做的事情，事后证明大多数都是极其珍贵的经验。

我举一个例子：那个时候，里德大学提供了全美国最好的书法教育。整个校园的每一张海报，每一个抽屉上的标签，都是漂亮的手写体。由于已经退学，不用再去上那些常规的课程，于是我选择了一个书法班，想学学怎么写出一手漂亮字。在这个班上，我学习了各种衬线和无衬线字体，如何改变不同字体组合之间的字间距，以及如何做出漂亮的版式。那是一种科学永远无法捕捉的充满美感、历史感和艺术感的微妙，我发现这太有意思了。

当时，我压根儿没想到这些知识会在我的生命中有什么实际运用价值；但是10年之后，当我们的设计第一款Macintosh电脑的候，这些东西全派上了用场。我把它们全部设

计进了 Mac，这是第一台可以排出好看版式的电脑。如果当时我大学里没有旁听这门课程的话，Mac就不会提供各种字体和等间距字体。自从视窗系统抄袭了Mac以后，（鼓掌大笑）所有的个人电脑都有了这些东西。如果我没有退学，我就不会去书法班旁听，而今天的个人电脑大概也就不会有出色的版式功能。当然我在念大学的那会儿，不可能有先见之明，把那些生命中的点点滴滴都串起来；但10年之后再回头看，生命的轨迹变得非常清楚。

再强调一次，你不可能充满预见地将生命的点滴串联起来；只有在你回头看的时候，你才会发现这些点点滴滴之间的联系。所以，你要坚信，你现在所经历的将在你未来的生命中串联起来。你不得不相信某些东西，你的直觉，命运，生活，因缘际会??正是这种信仰让我不会失去希望，它让我的人生变得与众不同。(过去做的很多事情，不知道有什么用处，后来发现，原来正是这些改变了自己；现在做的很多事情，也不知道有什么用，但请把它做好，以后你会发现，正是它们成就了你。)

我的第二个故事是关于爱与失去。

我是幸运的，在年轻的时候就知道了自己爱做什么。在我20岁的时候，就和沃兹在我父母的车库里开创了苹果电脑公司。我们勤奋工作，只用了10年的时间，苹果电脑就从车库里的两个小伙子扩展成拥有4000名员工，价值达到20亿美元的企业。而在此之前的一年，我们刚推出了我们最好的产品Macintosh电脑，当时我刚过而立之年。然后，我就被炒了鱿鱼。一个人怎么可以被他所创立的公司解雇呢？（笑声）这么说吧，随着苹果的成长，我们请了一个原本以为很能干的家伙和我一起管理这家公司，在头一年左右，他干得还不错，但后来，我们对公司未来的前景出现了分歧，于是我们之间出现了矛盾。由于公司的董事会站在他那一边，所以在我30岁的时候，就被踢出了局。我失去了一直贯穿在我整个成年生活的重心，打击是毁灭性的。

在头几个月，我真不知道要做些什么。我觉得我让企业界的前辈们失望了，我失去了传到我手上的指挥棒。我遇到了戴维·帕卡德（普惠的创办人之一——译注）和鲍勃·诺伊斯（英特尔的创办人之一——译注），我向他们道歉，因为我把事情搞砸了。我成了人人皆知的失败者，我甚至想过逃离硅谷。但曙光渐渐出现，我还是喜欢我做过的事情。在苹果电脑发生的一切丝毫没有改变我，一个比特（bit）都没有。虽然被抛弃了，但我的热忱不改。我决定重新开始。

我当时没有看出来，但事实证明，我被苹果开掉是我这一生所经历过的最棒的事情。成功的沉重被凤凰涅槃的轻盈所代替，每件事情都不再那么确定，我以自由之躯进入了我整个生命当中最有创意的时期。(每一段经历，当时看来可能是恐惧，可能是噩梦，可能是痛不欲生，回头却发现，正是它们成就了你。没有退学，可能Jobs搞出的电脑也乏善可陈；没有被苹果解雇，也不会有后来的Pixar。)

在接下来的5年里，我开创了一家叫做NeXT的公司，接着是一家名叫Pixar的公司，并且接识了后来成为我妻子的曼妙女郎。Pixar制作了世界上第一部全电脑动画电影《玩具总动员》，现在这家公司是世界上最成功的动画制作公司之一。（掌声）后来经历一系列的事件，苹果买下了NeXT，于是我又回到了苹果，我们在NeXT研发出的技术在推动苹果复兴的核心动力。我和劳伦斯也拥有了美满的家庭。

我非常肯定，如果没有被苹果炒掉，这一切都不可能在我身上发生。对于病人来说，良药总是苦口。生活有时候就像一块板砖拍向你的脑袋，但不要丧失信心。热爱我所从事的工作，是一直支持我不断前进的惟一理由。你得找出你的最爱，对工作如此，对爱人亦是如此。工作将占据你生命中相当大的一部分，从事你认为具有非凡意义的工作，方能给你带来真正的满足感。而从事一份伟大工作的惟一方法，就是去热爱这份工作。如果你到现在还没有找到这样一份工作，那么就继续找。不要安于现状，当万事了于心的时候，你就会知道何时能找到。如同任何伟大的浪漫关系一样，伟大的工作只会在岁月的酝酿中越陈越香。所以，在你终有所获之前，不要停下你寻觅的脚步。不要停下。

我的第三个故事是关于死亡。

在17 岁的时候，我读过一句格言，好像是：“如果你把每一天都当成你生命里的最后一天，你将在某一天发现原来一切皆在掌握之中。”（笑声）这句话从我读到之日起，就对我产生了深远的影响。在过去的33年里，我每天早晨都对着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我生命中的末日，我还愿意做我今天本来应该做的事情吗？”当一连好多天答案都否定的时候，我就知道做出改变的时候到了。

提醒自己行将入土是我在面临人生中的重大抉择时，最为重要的工具。

因为所有的事情——外界的期望、所有的尊荣、对尴尬和失败的惧怕——在面对死亡的时候，都将烟消云散，只留下真正重要的东西。在我所知道的各种方法中，提醒自己即将死去是避免掉入畏惧失去这个陷阱的最好办法。人赤条条地来，赤条条地走，没有理由不听从你内心的呼唤。

大约一年前，我被诊断出癌症。在早晨7：30我做了一个检查，扫描结果清楚地显示我的胰脏出现了一个肿瘤。我当时甚至不知道胰脏究竟是什么。医生告诉我，几乎可以确定这是一种不治之症，顶多还能活3至6个月。大夫建议我回家，把诸事安排妥当，这是医生对临终病人的标准用语。这意味着你得把你今后10年要对你的子女说的话用几个月的时间说完；这意味着你得把一切都安排妥当，尽可能减少你的家人在你身后的负担；这意味着向众人告别的时间到了。

我整天都想着诊断结果。那天晚上做了一个切片检查，医生把一个内诊镜从我的喉管伸进去，穿过我的胃进入肠道，将探针伸进胰脏，从肿瘤上取出了几个细胞。我打了镇静剂，但我的太太当时在场，她后来告诉我说，当大夫们从显微镜下观察了细胞组织之后，都哭了起来，因为那是一非常罕见的，可以通过手术治疗的胰脏癌。我接受了手术，现在已经康复了。

这是我最接近死亡的一次，我希望在随后的几十年里，都不要有比这一次更接近死亡的经历。在经历了这次与死神擦肩而过的经验之后，死亡对我来说只是一项有效的判断工具，并且只是一个纯粹的理性概念时相比，我能够更肯定地告诉你们以下事实：没人想死；即使想去天堂的人，也是希望能活着进去。（笑声）死亡是我们每个人的人生终点站，没人能够成为例外。生命就是如此，因为死亡很可能是生命最好的造物，它是生命更迭的媒介，送走耋耄老者，给新生代让路。现在你们还是新生代，但不久的将来你们也将逐渐老去，被送出人生的舞台。很抱歉说得这么富有戏剧性，但生命就是如此。

你们的时间有限，所以不要把时间浪费在别人的生活里。不要被条条框框束缚，否则你就生活在他人思考的结果里。不要让他人的观点所发出的噪音淹没你内心的声音。最为重要的是，要有遵从你的内心和直觉的勇气，它们可能已知道你其实想成为一个什么样的人。其他事物都是次要的。(不要自己的时间浪费在别人的生活里)

在我年轻的时候，有一本非常棒的杂志叫《全球目录》（The Whole Earth Catalog），它被我们那一代人奉为圭臬。这本杂志的创办人是一个叫斯图尔特·布兰德的家伙，他住在Menlo Park，距离这儿不远。他把这本杂志办得充满诗意。那是在60年代末期，个人电脑、桌面发排系统还没有出现，所以出版工具只有打字机、剪刀和宝丽来相机。这本杂志有点像印在纸上的Google，但那是在Google出现的35年前；它充满了理想色彩，内容都是些非常好用的工具和了不起的见解。

斯图尔特和他的团队做了几期《全球目录》，快无疾而终的时候，他们出版了最后一期。那是在70年代中期，我当时处在你们现在的年龄。在最后一期的封底有一张清晨乡间公路的照片，如果你喜欢搭车冒险旅行的话，经常会碰到的那种小路。在照片下面有一排字：求知若饥，虚心若愚（Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.）这是他们停刊的告别留言。求知若饥，虚心若愚。我总是以此自许。现在，在你们毕业开始新生活的时候，我把这句话送给你们。

求知若饥，虚心若愚。

非常谢谢大家。

内容背景资料：

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.这是苹果公司创始人、IT业最有影响力的人物之一Steve Jobs在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上致辞中的最后一句话，也是整个演讲的核心。他把对年轻人的期望全部包含到了这两个简单的句子中，鼓励学生们追求自己想要的生活。

直译：保持饥饿，保持愚蠢。——虽然看起来有点可笑，但意思比较吻合。

网上流行的一种翻译：求知若饥，虚心若愚。——个人觉得，尽管从形式和用词上比较玩味，但并不能准确地表达出原文的意思，因为这个 foolish 并非“若愚”所能表达。将它翻译成：物有所不足，智有所不明。似乎解决了这个问题，但其它问题又无法避免，这里表达是一种意愿，不是状态。是要做的，不是所处的境地。所以“物有所不足，智有所不明”似乎有些问题。

又有新译：坚持疯劲,坚持傻劲。

这里HUNGRY和FOOLISH都不是字面要表达的意思。前者既有饥饿、不足的意思，还有渴求、渴望的意思，后者当然不是愚蠢的意思，有“初生牛犊不怕虎”、天然纯情、不为世故而变得虚伪狡诈的意思。

比较难译。

"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."是不是一句双关？字面的意思是把每天都当成最后一天来过，总有一天这个”当成的最后一天“会变成”真正的最后一天“。所以下面的听众笑了。

苹果”电脑创始人斯蒂夫·乔布斯

苹果”电脑的创始人，１９８５年获得了由里根总统授予的国家级技术勋章；１９９７年成为《时代周刊》的封面人物；同年被评为最成功的管理者，是声名显赫的“计算机狂人”。

企业类型计算机业。

成长记录

他是一个美国式的英雄，几经起伏，但依然屹立不倒，就像海明威在《老人与海》中说到的，一个人可以被毁灭，但不能被打倒。他创造了“苹果”，掀起了个人电脑的风潮，改变了一个时代，但却在最顶峰的时候被封杀，从高楼落到谷底，但是１２年后，他又卷土重来，重新开始第二个“斯蒂夫·乔布斯”时代。

“苹果”出世

１９５５年２月２４日，斯蒂夫·乔布斯出生在美国旧金山，刚刚出世，就被大学教授的父亲与颓废派艺术家的母亲无情地遗弃了。幸运的是，一对好心的夫妻收留了这位可怜的私生子。

虽然是养子，但养父母却对他很好，如同亲子。学生时代的乔布斯聪明、顽皮，肆无忌惮，常常喜欢别出心裁地搞出一些令人啼笑皆非的恶作剧。不过，他的学习成绩倒是十分出众。

当时，乔布斯就生活在着名的“硅谷”附近，邻居都是“硅谷”元老——惠普公司的职员，在这些人的影响下，乔布斯从小就很迷恋电子学。一个惠普的工程师看他如此痴迷，就推荐他参加惠普公司的“发现者俱乐部”。这是个专门为年轻工程师举办的聚会，每星期二晚上在公司的餐厅中举行。就在一次聚会中，乔布斯第一次见到了电脑，他开始对计算机有了一个朦胧的认识。

在上初中时，乔布斯在一次同学聚会上，与比他年长５岁的沃兹见面。沃兹是学校电子俱乐部的会长，对电子也有很大的兴趣。两个人一见如故，８年后他们创办了苹果电脑公司。

１９岁那年，刚念大学一年级的乔布斯，突发奇想，辍学成为雅达利电视游戏机公司的一名职员。没过多久，年轻而不安分的他又对佛学产生了兴趣，连工作也不要了，飘洋过海去印度追随大法师修行练功。这次结果可想而知，不但没有学成佛，路上还吃尽苦头。他只好重新返回雅达利公司做了一名工程师。

安定下来之后，乔布斯继续自己年少时的兴趣，常常与沃兹一道，在自家的小车库里琢磨电脑。他们梦想着能够拥有一台自己的计算机，可是当时市面上卖的都是商用的，且体积庞大，极其昂贵，于是，他们准备自己开发。制造个人电脑必需就是微处理器，可是当时的８０８０芯片零售价要２７０美元，并且还不出售给未注册公司的人。两个人不灰心，仍继续寻找，终于在１９７６年度旧金山威斯康星计算机产品展销会上买到了摩托罗拉公司出品的６５０２芯片，功能与英特尔公司的８０８０相差无几，但价格却只要２０美元。

带着６５０２芯片，两个狂喜的年轻人回到乔布斯的车库，开始了自己伟大的创新。他们设计了一个电路板，将６５０２微处理器和接口及其他一些部件安装在上面，通过接口将微处理机与键盘、视频显示器连接在一起，仅仅几个星期，电脑就装好了。乔布斯的朋友都被震动了，但他们都没意识到，这个其貌不扬的东西就是世界上第一台个人电脑，会给以后的世界带来多大的影响。但是精明的乔布斯立即估量出这种自制电脑的市场价值所在。为筹集批量生产的资金，他卖掉了自己的大众牌小汽车，同时劝说沃兹也卖掉了他珍爱的惠普６５型计算器。就这样，他们有了奠基伟业的１３００美元。

１９７６年愚人节那天，乔布斯、沃兹及乔布斯的朋友龙·韦恩做了一件影响后世的事情：他们三人签署了一份合同，决定成立一家电脑公司。公司的名称由偏爱苹果的乔布斯一锤定音——称为苹果。后来流传开来的就是那个着名的商标——一只被人咬了一口的苹果。而他们的自制电脑则被顺理成章地追认为“苹果Ｉ号”电脑了。

黯然离开

但在开始的时候，“苹果”机的生意却很清淡，毕竟它是一个全新的东西，除了对电子感兴趣的人，谁知道这个东西会有什么用处，而原先对“苹果一号”感兴趣的朋友们现在开始持观望态度，等待更好的“苹果ＩＩ号”的出台。

一个偶然的机遇给“苹果”公司带来了转机。１９７６年７月的一天，零售商保罗·特雷尔来到了乔布斯的车库，当看完乔布斯熟练地演示电脑后，他认为“苹果”机大有前途，决意冒一次风险——订购５

０台整机，但要求一个月内交货，乔布斯喜出望外，立即签约，拍板成交，这可是做成的第一笔“大生意”。

时间太仓促，任务又繁重，乔布斯和沃兹冒着酷暑，没日没夜地乾了起来，为了公司的生存，他们豁出去了。他们每天几乎都在挥汗如雨、顽强拼搏中度过，每周工作６６小时。终于在第２９天他们奇迹般地完成了任务，把５０台“苹果”电脑如数交给了商人特雷尔。

５０台整机在特雷尔手里很快销售一空，有了良好的开始，“苹果”公司名声大振。开始了小批量生产。乔布斯和沃兹开始意识到，他们的小资本根本不足以应付这急速的发展。乔布斯后来回忆道：“大约是在１９７６年秋，我发现市场的增长比我们想象的还快，我们需要更多的钱。”为此，他们分头去找资金支持，包括沃兹就职的公司惠普，但遗憾的是，这些公司都没意识到这其中蕴藏的商机和市场。

机遇往往垂青努力的人。１９７６年１０月，百万富翁马尔库拉慕名前来拜访沃兹和他们的车库工场。马尔库拉是位训练有素的电气工程师，且十分擅长推销工作，被人们称为推销奇才。由于在股票生意上发了财，他很早就选择了退休的生活。但看到这两个年轻人的新产品，马尔库拉决心重操旧业，帮助他们把公司大张旗鼓地办起来。他主动帮助他们制定一份商业计划，给他们贷款６９万美元，将自己的命运与两个年轻人联系在一起。有了马尔库拉这样行家里手的指导，有了这笔巨资，“苹果”公司的发展速度大大加快了。

１９７７年４月，美国有史以来的第一次计算机展览会在西海岸开幕了。为了在展览会上打出名声，乔布斯四处奔走，花费巨资，在展览会上弄到了最大最好的摊位。更引人注目的当然是苹果２号样机，它一改过去个人电脑沉重粗笨、设计复杂、难以操作的形象，以小巧轻便、操作简便和可以安放在家中使用等鲜明特点，紧紧抓住了观众的心。它只有１２磅重，仅用１０只螺钉组装，塑胶外壳美观大方，看上去就像一部漂亮的打字机。人们都不敢相信这部小机器竟能在大荧光屏上连续显示出壮观的、如同万花筒般的各种色彩，“苹果ＩＩ”机在展览会上一鸣惊人，几千名用户拥向展台，观看、试用，订单纷纷而来。

１９８０年，《华尔街日报》的全页广告写着“苹果电脑就是２１世纪人类的自行车”，并登有乔布斯的巨幅照片。１９８０年１２月１２日，苹果公司股票公开上市，在不到一个小时内，４６０万股全被抢购一空，当日以每股２９美元收市。按这个收盘价计算，苹果公司高层产生了４名亿万富翁和４０名以上的百万富翁。乔布斯作为公司创办人当然是排名第一。

从１９７６年初的创业，只有１３００美元起家，经过不到５年，“苹果”发展成拥有１０００多名职工、市值达数十亿美元的大型电脑公司。这不能不说是个奇迹。而乔布斯年仅２５岁，就跻身于亿万富翁行列，更可谓是奇迹中的奇迹。

因为巨大的成功，乔布斯在１９８５年获得了由里根总统授予的国家级技术勋章。然而，成功来得太快，过多的荣誉背后是强烈的危机，由于乔布斯过于锋芒毕露，咄咄逼人，无形中得罪了很多人。加上蓝色巨人ＩＢＭ公司也开始醒悟过来，也推出了个人电脑，抢占大片市场，使得乔布斯新开发出的电脑节节惨败，总经理和董事们便把这一失败归罪于董事长乔布斯，于１９８５年４月经由董事会决议撤销了他的经营大权。乔布斯几次想夺回权力均未成功，便在１９８５年９月１７日愤而辞去苹果公司董事长。

辞职几天后，乔布斯又创办了“ｎｅｘｔ”电脑公司，继续开始他的事业之旅，但“苹果”的辉煌在他离开之后不再继续了。

重整河山

１９９６年１２月１７日，全球各大计算机报刊几乎都在头版刊出了“苹果收购Ｎｅｘｔ，乔布斯重回苹果”的消息。此时的乔布斯，正因其公司成功制作第一部电脑动画片《玩具总动员》而名声大振，个人身价已暴涨逾１０亿美元；而相形之下，苹果公司却已濒临绝境。

乔布斯于苹果危难之中重新归来，苹果公司上下皆十分欢欣鼓舞。就连前ＣＥＯ阿梅利奥也在迎接乔布斯的欢迎词中说：“我们以最隆重的仪式欢迎我们最伟大的天才归来，我们相信，他会让世人相信苹果电脑是信息业中永远的创新者。”乔布斯重归故里，心中牵系“大事业”的梦想。他向苹果电脑的追随者们说：“我始终对苹果一往情深，能再次为苹果的未来设计蓝图，我感到莫大荣幸。”这个曾经的英雄终于在众望所归下重新归来了！

受命于危难之际，乔布斯果敢地发挥了首席执行官的权威，大刀阔斧地进行改革。他首先改组了董事会，然后又做出一件令人们瞠目结舌的大事——抛弃旧怨，与苹果公司的宿敌微软公司握手言欢，缔结了举世瞩目的“世纪之盟”，达成战略性的全面交叉授权协议。乔布斯因此再度成为《时代》周刊的封面人物。

接着，他开始推出了新的电脑。１９９８年，ｉＭａｃ背负着苹果公司的希望，凝结着员工的汗水，寄托着乔布斯振兴苹果的梦想，呈现在世人面前。它是一个全新的电脑，代表着一种未来的理念。半透明的外装，一扫电脑灰褐色的千篇一律的单调，似太空时代的产物，加上发光的鼠标，以及１２９９美元的价格标签，令人赏心悦目??不愧是苹果设计，标新立异，非同凡响。为了宣传，乔布斯把笛卡尔的名言“我思故我在”变成了ｉＭａｃ的广告文案ＴｈｉｎｋＴｈｅｒｅＦｏｒｉＭａｃ！由此成了广告业的经典案例。

新产品重新点燃了苹果机拥戴者们的希望。三年来他们一直在等待的东西出现了，ｉＭａｃ成了当年最热门的话题。１９９８年１２月，ｉＭａｃ荣获《时代》杂志“１９９８最佳电脑”称号，并名列“１９９８年度全球十大工业设计”第三名。

接着，１９９９年乔布斯又推出了第二代ｉＭａｃ，有着红、黄、蓝、绿、紫五种水果颜色的款式供选择，一面市就受到用户的热烈欢迎。１９９９年７月推出的外形蓝黄相间，像漂亮玩具一样的笔记本电脑ｉＢｏｏｋ在市场上迅即受到用户追捧。ｉＢｏｏｋ融合了ｉＭａｃ独特的时尚风格、最新无线网络功能与苹果电脑在便携电脑领域的全部优势，是专为家庭和学校用户设计的“可移动ｉＭａｃ”。１９９９年１０月ｉＢｏｏｋ夺得“美国消费类便携电脑”市场第一名，还在《时代》杂志举行的“１９９９年度世界之最”评选中，荣获“年度最佳设计奖”。

在乔布斯的改革之下，“苹果”终于扭转败局。乔布斯刚上任时，苹果公司的亏损高达１０亿美元，一年后却奇迹般地赢利３．０９亿美元。１９９９年１月，当乔布斯宣布第四财政季度赢利１．５２亿美元，超出华尔街的预测３８％时，苹果公司的股价立即攀升，最后以每股４６．５美元收盘，舆论哗然。苹果电脑在ＰＣ市场的占有率已由原来的５％增加到１０％。

１９９７年，乔布斯被评为“最成功的管理者”。越来越多的业界同仁认同了此观点。甚至连当初将乔布斯挤出苹果公司的斯卡利也情不自禁地赞叹：“苹果的逆转不是骗局，乔布斯乾得绝对出色。苹果又开始回到原来的轨道。”

乔布斯成为一个奇迹，但这个奇迹还将继续进行下去。他总是给人以不断地惊喜，无论是开始还是后来，他天才的电脑天赋；平易近人的处世风格；绝妙的创意脑筋；伟大的目标；处变不惊的领导风范筑就了苹果企业文化的核心内容，苹果公司的雇员对他的崇敬简直就是一种宗教般的狂热。雇员甚至对外面的人说：我为乔布斯工作！就连比尔·盖茨都说，我不过是乔布斯第二。

成功秘诀

从对电脑的痴迷，到挚爱。

２５岁就成为亿万富翁的背后，是努力执着

信息业永远的创新者。

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