No. Exponential growth or decay is much faster than quadratic growth or decay. You may be mixing up exponential functions, of the form x maps to ab^x, with po

No. Exponential growth or decay is much faster than quadratic growth or decay. You may be mixing up exponential functions, of the form x maps to ab^x, with power functions, of the form x maps to ax^b. These are very different! Annoyingly, people often use "exponential" colloquially to mean anything faster than linear, but in fact lots of things are faster than linear.