Time Establishing priorities, practicing good principles of administration, utilizing support services, and eliminating elements of time wasters aid in the process of excellence. It takes time to give attention to detail. It takes time to accept responsibility for projects in which others have failed, to do the job yourself and to make sure it is done right. It takes time to repeat a project over and over until it finally meets the highest of standards. And it takes time to check and recheck quality control to ensure no area of 4 potential difficulty becomes overlooked.
Time is an expensive price.
Further, once time is spent it can never be retrieved. Hence, a person must weigh each activity in light of its value to the time which it requires. Either doing things to their fullest potential is worth the time involved or it is not. Excellence exacts its price and will not accept alternatives. Perhaps it is at this point that some agree in principle with the concept of excellence but fall short of its practice.