If they have doubts about the future of the company, then stock compensation might just feel like worthless pieces of paper. (entrepreneur.com)
Glass Steagall was repealed in 1999 and now in the vaults of the major banks there are 2 trillion dollars of worthless pieces of paper. (voices.washingtonpost.com)
Patents are mostly worthless pieces of paper, and very few that I have read contain anything novel, and certainly not the secret to protecting a company's moat. (gigaom.com)