Rush Limbaugh Quotes

I often hear that it's unfair that athletes should make what they make versus teachers, because who's more important. But that's not how the market works. Markets don't sign things. You know what you're worth is what somebody will pay you. It's not some arbitrary - the purpose of a company is not to create jobs and health care. That's not why they exist. And it's not to create fairness or any of that. That's not why people form businesses and try to sell a service or a product.

If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

Supply and demand don’t work on a legislative schedule.

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

The laws of trade must be the great teacher.

The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.

There is nothing to arbitrate. Workers have nothing to do with the amount of wages they shall receive. This is solely the business of the company.

The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

The supply price and the demand price should be roughly the same. You're not supposed to have two different prices. According to economists.

We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to exist, then it shouldn't exist.

You cannot set salaries by decree. At the end of the day, it doesn't work with the market. What you can make sure to do is to train workers in order to make them more efficient and demand higher salaries because of their qualifications.

That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price.

We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.

Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid in various industries and to determine the standard which the public ought to sanction as a minimum; and we believe that, as a present installment of what we hope for in the future, there should be at once established in the Nation and its several States minimum standards for the wages of women, taking the present Massachusetts law as a basis from which to start and on which to improve.

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.