After a brush with death, Carl Barney realised he would never see the joy his money would bring. So he asked his friends to spend it solely on their own happiness.
Multimillionaire Carl Barney wanted to see the joy money brought his friends. Bethany Rae
As an engine failed on Carl Barney’s flight out of Nevada, the aircraft floated upward – then plummeted.
“A stunning silence followed, a sense of futility and fate,” remembers the 84-year-old multimillionaire, who was born into a threadbare existence in wartime Britain and went on to make his entrepreneurial fortune in the United States.
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