The Arrogant (Semi)Professional SEO
Here you start getting full of yourself a bit prematurely, but are profitable enough to get away with it, and
ignorant enough that you don't know any better. Google has
not burned down any of your sites yet, and if they did you figure those sites deserved what they got because they are low quality.
The sites you care about are of high quality though, and they will grow almost every month until one of them gets toasted.
* I am a professional SEO. I know this stuff. These are the rules
* We are better than everyone. We have the best content
* We don't buy links because we are white hat SEOs
* People link to us because we have the best content, as do our clients
* We don't make much from our rankings, but that is because we chose not to, because we are ethical