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Gowers and Maurey constructed a complex hereditarily indecomoposable (HI for short) Banach space, i.e., a space with no decomposable subspaces. Gowers has also proved that every infinite dimensional Banach space contains an infinite dimensional subspace which either has an unconditional basis or HI. In this paper, the authors prove the analogous results for quotient indecomposable (QI for short) Banach spaces, i.e., Banach spaces with no decomposable quotients. The authors' abstract: We show that a complex Banach space \(X\) is a quotient indecomposable Banach space if and only if every operator from \(X\) into a quotient space \(Y\) of \(X\) can be written as \(\lambda Q+K\), where \(\lambda \in C\), \(Q:X\to Y\) is the quotient map and \(K\) is a strictly cosingular operator. In this way, we obtain a dual version of a result of \textit{V. Ferenczi} [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 29, No. 3, 338-344 (1997; Zbl 0899.46010)].