Investors shouldn't unthinkingly follow Buffett, or any other billionaire money manager, into Amazon or any other stock. However, Amazon is a top stock with robust opportunities trading at an attractive valuation, and if you have $500 available today, Amazon is an excellent choice.

Warren Buffett has generated tremendous gains for the long-term shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway over the years. The Berkshire Hathaway portfolio today features stakes in more than three dozen companies that were either selected by Buffett himself or one of his investing deputies.

Equal opportunity should begin at birth,’ wrote the Oracle of Omaha, as he chastised those with ‘extreme look-at-me styles of living.’ Warren Buffett has distributed another $1 billion of his wealth in what is fast becoming a Thanksgiving tradition for the world’s seventh-richest man.