Which of his top five stocks is the best pick depends on your investing style. The best overall stock, though, could be the one to which Buffett has given the highest praise. However, Buffett has over $1 trillion of Berkshire's portfolio invested in other publicly traded companies.

Perhaps that’s one reason stocks are selling off globally this morning. While most indexes in Asia and Europe remain near their all-time highs, there is broad-based but mild selling in all of them.

Warren Buffett has loomed over Wall Street for so long that it’s easy to forget how quietly his story began. He started buying his first shares at age 11 and filed his first tax return at 13. From those humble beginnings,