Wealth building comes in different forms and through consistent work.  There are steps you can take to put yourself on the path to building wealth early in life without a lot of money.   One way is by building up your cash reserves aka your savings.  There are additional wealth building opportunities that you need to participate in, such as, increasing your streams of income and investing but we are going to focus on building up your savings first so you will have the money to invest in those opportunities when you are ready.