Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Frugality is a great revenue.

I have not thrown my money away on unnecessary things in my life, so I'm okay.

Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

Whatever you have, spend less.

Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Spend not on hopes.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.

The only way to meet the situation [the financial crisis] is spend less money and to run the City of New York within the limits of our resources. Unless you do this, gentlemen, you will have a difficult problem confronting you by the end of this year and the taxpayers of 1922 and the years thereafter will have to pay the price of our present lack of prudence or our unwillingness to economize at the proper time.

Frugality was my side hustle. I was really good at it.

I'm not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and attain the salutary arts of contracting expense; for without economy none can be rich, and with it few can be poor.

It's smart to be thrifty.