Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it’s like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Turner likens the rapid, fractional movements of a stock price (“up an eighth, down an eighth”) to the randomness and compulsion of gambling. The line conveys how extreme wealth tied to volatile markets can make enormous gains and losses feel both routine and unreal—numbers flicker on a screen rather than translating into immediate lived consequences. It also hints at the psychological whiplash of being publicly valued by market sentiment: one’s perceived fortune can swing by tens of millions without any change in underlying work or character. The slot-machine image underscores the addictive, dehumanizing rhythm of financial speculation and the way it can reduce business achievement to moment-to-moment chance.