Fortune Favors the Bold from Smartercomics by Franco Arda

Born in Switzerland, he earned his MBA in the UK, then worked in derivatives sales for Deutsche Bank, an investment bank, in London, Zurich, and Hong Kong. Boldness is the missing ingredient in most people's lives.įranco is the CEO & founder of SmarterComics. You'll think about it for days, and return to it to renew yourself.īoldness won't guarantee success, but lack of boldness guarantees failure, says Franco.

Platitude-free, it genuinely examines the role of boldness in achieving anything worthwhile and lays out the roadmap for becoming an achiever.įilled with amusing illustrations but crammed with serious, rarely-seen quotes from some of the world's most successful people, this comic makes a mark on the consciousness. If you want insight that launches you into action, this is the guide book. Without boldness, a goal is only a pipedream, and ambition vegetates into regret. Boldness is key, but it's something most self-help books forget to explore. If you want to grab life by the horns but tend to drag your feet doing it, this comic is for you.įortune Favors the Bold explains that rarely-thought-about element so essential to achieving anything: the act of actually stepping up to the plate. SmarterComics is just right for that youthful audience-more than half of whom say they want to start their own business someday, according to a late-2011 survey by youth advocacy organization Young Invincibles, funded in part by the Kauffman Foundation.Written by the founder of SmarterComics, this powerful little manual packs a punch. 'It's not only that we are moving to digital, but we prefer information in bit sizes or Twitter style-short and to the point.'Īnd no one drives this bit- and byte-size movement more than Millennials-the nearly 46 million twentysomethings known for being progressive, open to change and driven by technology (though with an appreciation for all things retro). 'Today we read differently than, say, 20 years ago,' Arda says. SmarterComics' offerings aren't word-for-word interpretations a comic-book scriptwriter creates a storyboard of the main points, then collaborates with the illustrator, who is chosen based on his or her style and its suitability to the topic at hand. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has graphically translated Chris Anderson's The Long Tail, Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Machiavelli's The Prince, and is working with rapper 50 Cent to put out a comic version of The 50th Law, his book on strategy and success, this fall. 'I thought it was a new medium for making people smarter,' he says. Arda enjoyed nonfiction but didn't know anything about comics the idea of combining the two intrigued him. He met comic artist Anjin Anhut, who suggested he illustrate the book.

Fortune Favors the Bold from Smartercomics by Franco Arda