The Great Asshole Fallacy
Excellence awards you the choice of being an asshole.<p>It also allows you to be revisionist in excusing you being an asshole as necessary in retrospect, even if it wasn't.<p>Some people will be assholes if allowed to, but I don't think it's (positively) correlated with success.<p>I imagine few people work better for/with an asshole, and if someone excellent/smart/1000x developer is pleasant to work with (but perhaps assertive) the results are probably even better.