Celebrities share savings secretsKnow your true worthPeter Frampton Musician ("Frampton Comes Alive," "Fingerprints")Fame & Fortune Q&A:Bankrate: At the height of your success, you lost out on some of your earnings. What happened? Peter Frampton: I was doing very well personally. I was making a lot of money but not realizing that that wasn't all that should have been going to me. By the time you realize all that, a lot of money has gone elsewhere. It's like when you go back to some of the original R&B and blues guys and if they complained about their recording contracts, the record company would send them a car and they would go, 'Oh wow, they like me!' They didn't realize that they could have bought a hundred of those with the amount of money that was owed them.Lesson learned: Realize your worth and make sure you're adequately compensated for it.SubmitHowie MandelCarrie Ann InabaPeter FramptonTom RobbinsArt LinkletterSteve SchirripaAndy BorowitzSara EvansCharles GrodinHeidi KlumDelta BurkeKaren AllenRachael RayAl RokerDayna DevonDanica Patrick Select: advertisementRelated Links:Fix $10,000 savings mistakeCould you be saving too much?Cash savings bonds carefullyRelated Articles:Find high-yield checkingDid parents cash bonds?Members get top rates
Peter Frampton: I was doing very well personally. I was making a lot of money but not realizing that that wasn't all that should have been going to me. By the time you realize all that, a lot of money has gone elsewhere. It's like when you go back to some of the original R&B and blues guys and if they complained about their recording contracts, the record company would send them a car and they would go, 'Oh wow, they like me!' They didn't realize that they could have bought a hundred of those with the amount of money that was owed them.
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