And like many modern gurus, he made his fortune teaching others to make theirs.
A key scene, staged by Reisz with wistful insistence, features a family gathering to pay homage on his 80th birthday to the grandfather, an emigré Lithuanian Jew, whose ruthless risk-taking in building his fortune taught the future gambler everything he imagines he knows about luck.
Bikram Choudhury, the originator of this yoga, has made a small fortune teaching it.
(As I write this, Professor Rowbotham, now a distinguished scholar, has her job under threat from the ghastly, grey accountants who run Manchester University. We are now in an epoch of production-line universities with celebrities paid fortunes to teach eight hours a week and genuine scholars dumped in the bin).
The last thing any of us want to see is Techcrunch turning into another Valleywag – not least because as Valleywag's recent fortunes have taught us, making shit up doesn't pay the bills.
Zuckerberg famously donated $100 million to the New Jersey public school system, signed the giving pledge to give away most of his fortune, has taught a class a public school near Facebook's headquarters, and was recognized as the most generous American in 2013 after donating $990 million worth of Facebook stock to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Last April I had the good fortune to teach yoga at UCLA one Saturday morning as part of the Saturday Opportunities for Adaptive Recreation (SOAR) program for individuals with physical disabilities.
We've spent a fortune on staff development, teaching teachers about differentiating instruction".
Power's Stan is a light-on-his-feet operator who cajoles the carnival's fortune teller (Joan Blondell) into teaching him her act.
(I have the good fortune of teaching in a recycled industrial building equipped with modern climate controls).
