Only if you sell them, then you get the money, else still in paper

, the point is when to sell it..... and if you were to sell it, then when u going to buy back again, as the company continue not to pay dividend, the share price still going up...
unless you hold it forever, and yet one day you still need to sell it to get the gain...... or one day the company start to give dividend, then you can get some money back in your pocket.... else still on paper....