Excellent points. I learned long ago, as a teaching assistant in the English Dep’t at The Univ of Connecticut, that some of my students with the worst writing skills were on their way to becoming very successful business owners.
In the early 1980’s I had a student who couldn’t write a paragraph without a couple of dozen spelling errors and virtually zero punctuation, but he had recently negotiated the sale of a registered Holstein for $225,000. I was living in a cockroach infested apartment for married students at the time making $200/mo and eating rice and beans. I figured out pretty quick that knowing the difference between “”your” and “you’re” wasn’t my ticket to living a life of prosperity....
Just curious, as long as we're on the subject, should that be "quick" or "quickly"?