Sadly not an unusual attitude. I've known (and occasionally worked for) people who felt that rules were for chumps. Their reasoning was always a variation on;

"winning is good",

"chumps slow themselves down by following rules",

"in your evaluation at the end of the year the bonuses go to 'winners' not losers."

It is a rather narcissistic perhaps even sociopathic view of the world in my opinion, but it does exist.