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.

Even if you don’t know much about investing or the stock market, you’ve probably heard the name Warren Buffett before. Warren Buffett is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the most successful investors of our time.

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.