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I was learning about 限らない and encounter this particular sentence.

> 社長の意見が必ずしも正しいとは限らない  
>

I'm pretty sure that the meaning would be  
**_"Manager's opinion is not always right"_**

But if I check the dictionary entry for 必ずしも it means _"not always"._  
How come then 社長の意見が必ずしも正しい means "Manager's opinion is always correct"?
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必ずしも within this sentence
I think that 必ずしも is like 必ず but just used for negative sentences. I am pretty
sure that 必ずしも **must** be used with a negative verb, which inevitably makes
it mean "not always". It is the fact that it is combined with "限らない" that
makes it that way, and not by itself.
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I'm a little bit confused, so the following my answers are simple. Correct:
"社長の意見が必ずしも正しいとは限らない" correspond to "Manager's opinion is not always right."
or "Company president's opinion is not always right." Wrong: "社長の意見が必ずしも正しい"
(This Japanese sentence should be "社長の意見は必ず正しい") Correct: "社長の意見は必ず正しい"
correspond to "Manager's opinion always right." (I can't agree with this
opinion!)

"社長" means the top management. In Japanese "管理職（管理者）manager" means
"課長、次長、部長、本部長、取締役、常務取締役、専務取締役、代表取締役社長" So "The business term "Manager" not
always mean the top managemet of the company. It often means middle calss of
management."
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