A. Many people buy a stock anticipate to sell the stock later at a higher price. However, a stock's price is determined by many factors, including factors related to the underlying business and factors driven by the market supply and demand.
If you hope to sell the stock at a higher price, there has to be another person who is willing to buy at that higher price from you. But it's solely the company's call to decide whether to issue dividends or not. Many quality companies issue dividends consistently quarter after quarter.
According to Ibbotson Associates, since 1926, only 40% of the profits from owning the stocks of the S&P 500 came from price appreciation, the rest 60% came from dividend payments!